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- “They don’t necessarily think their movements will make all the difference—at least not in the short term. But they believe they can make a difference to their movement” — Michael Brownstein & Alex Madva on the civic value of losing loudly
- A fictional movie about sexual harassment, set in the Yale Philosophy Department, will be out in the US in October — starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, and Chloë Sevigny, “After the Hunt” is getting mixed reviews. Scroll to the end of this post for the trailer.
- Transformative shared experiences — L.A. Paul and Brian Earp talk about “transformative experiences shared by couples or groups, where it isn’t just individuals who change, but relationships themselves”
- “Lincoln… both fought passionately against slavery and held that racial inequality was unavoidable and acceptable” — Sacha Golob on the complexities of morally assessing “flawed heroes”
- What is it like to have a brain-computer interface? — “the Neuralink device has been entirely transformative,” says the first patient to have one implanted
- Don’t be a “drive-by critic” — Nathan Nobis explains what that is, and what we should do instead
- Is there a sharp cutoff between the conscious and the non-conscious? — Pete Mandik offers a thought experiment about consciousness and vagueness
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