Essays

How to Deal with Spiritual Hierarchy

Accept and Exploit, Deny and Condemn, or Option 3

Apr 20 •

Steve Patterson

The Problem of Physical Interaction

Reductive physicalism undermines itself and cannot explain how interaction happens at all.

Mar 19 •

Steve Patterson

Geometry as Logic

Mathematics is an extension of logic.

Feb 11 •

Steve Patterson

Everything in Discrete Space

I'm working through the implications of discrete space and am starting to build some intriguing intuitions.

Jan 3 •

Steve Patterson

Information and Spirit

The Spiritual and the Abstract

Oct 13, 2024 •

Steve Patterson

Why We Need to Replace Mathematics

It Starts with Philosophy

Aug 5, 2024 •

Steve Patterson

4 Steps to the Immaterial

More on Platonism

Jul 26, 2024 •

Steve Patterson

Apriorist Geometry and Curved Space

There's Euclidean, Non-Euclidean, and Crazy People like me

Feb 11, 2024 •

Steve Patterson

Why Language Machines do not have Souls

LLMs Reveal the Abstract Structure of Language

Dec 18, 2023 •

Steve Patterson

Self-Reference without Paradox

How to Understand Self-Referential Sentences

Sep 27, 2023 •

Steve Patterson

Is Everything Quantifiable?

There’s an ongoing quest to reduce everything to mathematics.

Aug 7, 2023 •

Steve Patterson

Theoretical Pluralism and Chess

There are many different paths, but some are better than others

Jun 17, 2023 •

Steve Patterson

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