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What is Sense
: on the conditions of temporal unity of consciousness
Jun 6, 2025
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Michael Kowalik
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Why Vaccine Mandates are Unethical
Summary of the strongest arguments against vaccine mandates
Aug 10, 2022
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Michael Kowalik
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Migrating to new website
I am migrating my page to Wordpress due to Substack now demanding that I give biometric data to some vendor company (for free) to access my Substack…
Dec 17, 2025
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Michael Kowalik
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Why thoughts happen
: the origin and function of thought
Dec 14, 2025
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Michael Kowalik
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Against Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
Gödel’s second incompleteness theorem (which is an extension of the first incompleteness theorem) can be summarised as follows: if the theorem of…
Dec 10, 2025
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Michael Kowalik
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Self-Coding
Computer programs are sequences of logical arguments.
Nov 29, 2025
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Voices in Your Mind
The concept of thought/mind is a relatively recent abstraction, likely originating around the time of Buddha and early Greek philosophers.
Nov 16, 2025
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Michael Kowalik
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What is ‘truth’ like?
When a person ‘believes’ something, they typically take that something to be ‘true’.
Nov 4, 2025
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Michael Kowalik
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Method of Proof
Every decision involves a series of implicit arguments, each committed to a conclusion that is taken to follow from the relevant premises.
Aug 23, 2025
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Michael Kowalik
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The Meaning of Words
: on the presuppositions of natural language
Jul 31, 2025
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Michael Kowalik
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“Self-awareness: acquaintance, intentionality, representation, relation”
My response to Galen Strawson
Jul 3, 2025
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Michael Kowalik
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“The fallacy behind fallacies”
My response to Gerald J. Massey
Jun 16, 2025
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Michael Kowalik
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Grounding Relevance (in logic)
Assertions about relevance or irrelevance of arguments are often made as if relevance were uncontroversial, obvious, but this is not the case.
May 27, 2025
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Michael Kowalik
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You Are Not Self-Aware
The sense of 'I am' does not involve direct awareness of 'I', the locus of attention, the mind's eye, which is the logical counterpart and therefore…
Apr 18, 2025
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