Latest links….

1. Are you your connectome? — If so, we might see an in-principle way of giving you immortality. Unfortunately, the most promising technique for this is… fatal?
2. Academic bullying disguised as fighting for academic freedom — “Over the past decade, something very odd has happened to the idea of academic freedom: It has become conflated with free speech,” writes Jennifer Ruth (Portland State)
3. At the intersection of philosophical theories of well-being and empirical studies of well-being — an interdisciplinary team fights equivocations and explores implications
4. Strategies for better aesthetic disagreement — from Brandon Polite (Knox) and Matt Strohl (Montana)
5. “A complex and accurate analog computing device — from a civilization that flourished 2,200 years ago” — the Antikythera mechanism is further evidence that “the past is more complicated, more multi-faceted, and more surprising than we currently know”
6. “Demarcation is simply inevitable. Scientists have finite time and therefore must select which topics are worth working on and which are not” — the challenges of distinguishing science from non-science, in Boston Review
7. “I believe that actions are wrong when they cause harm that violates a right [or]… when they cause gratuitous offence” — “Often cultural appropriation does neither.” James Young (Victoria) interviewed about art, music, copyright, culture, and more

Mini-Heap posts usually appear when 7 or so new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, the collection of items from around the web that may be of interest to philosophers. Discussion welcome.

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