Matthew B. Crawford

Dec 9, 2024 | thenewatlantis.com | Christine Rosen |John Fechtel |Brad East |Matthew B. Crawford

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version If the worry during the Enlightenment, as mathematician Isaac Milner wrote in 1794, was that ‘the great and high’ have ‘forgotten that they have souls,’ then today the worry is that many of us have forgotten that we have bodies.” So writes Christine Rosen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and senior editor of this journal, in her new book, The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World.

Jul 24, 2024 | mcrawford4.medium.com | Matthew B. Crawford

Recently I had the pleasure of reading : The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel.

Jul 9, 2024 | mcrawford4.medium.com | Matthew B. Crawford

Several years ago, Randall Munroe published this XKCD comic: This comic has been widely praised on the Internet by people whose ideologies happen to fall in alignment with those of monstrously powerful tech companies, but relatively few attempts seem to have been made to explain why it is so foolish. This will be mine. Munroe's conception of free speech is flawed and pernicious for the following reasons: The United States is not the only nation that exists in this world.

Jul 2, 2024 | thenewatlantis.com | Bruno Macaes |Charles T. Rubin |Jon Askonas |Matthew B. Crawford

The American dream has always meant living in our own fantasy worlds. Maybe it’s time to really go for it.

Jul 1, 2024 | mcrawford4.medium.com | Matthew B. Crawford

This is a brief response to an article on Medium. (It appears not to be paywalled.) The article is We Know Exactly What Consciousness Is - Don't Let Anyone Tell You Otherwise by Casper Wilstrup. In his article, Wilstrup claims that attempts by scientists and philosophers to understand and define consciousness in terms of physical properties that we already grasp are misguided.