Finn Thwaite
@finnthwaite.bsky.social
World's only solipsist.
Aspiring consciousness researcher.
King's College London.
Aspiring consciousness researcher.
King's College London.
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“As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural philosophy, which, intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science.” — I.I. Rabi
January 18, 2026 at 1:47 PM
“As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural philosophy, which, intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science.” — I.I. Rabi
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Is panpsychism a philosophical dead-end or a legitimate response to the hard problem of consciousness? I respond to Walter Veit's critique and defend panpsychism as a serious metaphysical option, not ornamental fluff. #philsky @walterveit.bsky.social
Is panpsychism pseudophilosophy?
A response to Walter Veit
mindmonads.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Is panpsychism a philosophical dead-end or a legitimate response to the hard problem of consciousness? I respond to Walter Veit's critique and defend panpsychism as a serious metaphysical option, not ornamental fluff. #philsky @walterveit.bsky.social
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I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!
January 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!
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Merry Christmas to me!
December 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Merry Christmas to me!
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My article on aeonophiles (ultra-long lived organisms) came out in Aeon Magazine today!
The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life. An Essay by @karenlloyd.bsky.social
The discovery of aeonophiles expands our definition of life | Aeon Essays
The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life
aeon.co
December 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
My article on aeonophiles (ultra-long lived organisms) came out in Aeon Magazine today!
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In my first Substack post, I write about why panpsychism - the view that consciousness is everywhere - should be taken seriously. While seemingly radical, it rests on a set of individually compelling premises about the nature of reality. Subscribe for more! ✨ #philsky
Why take panpsychism seriously
The radical idea that consciousness is everywhere
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
In my first Substack post, I write about why panpsychism - the view that consciousness is everywhere - should be taken seriously. While seemingly radical, it rests on a set of individually compelling premises about the nature of reality. Subscribe for more! ✨ #philsky
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We're all fundamental. Here's my weird take on #panpsychism. Open-access article! 🙂 #philsky
Monadic panpsychism - Synthese
One of the main obstacles for panpsychism, the view that consciousness is fundamental and ubiquitous, is the difficulty of explaining how simple subjects could combine to form complex subjects. Known ...
link.springer.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
We're all fundamental. Here's my weird take on #panpsychism. Open-access article! 🙂 #philsky
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“Within this culture, physicalism often functions not as a contested ontological thesis, but as a default assumption, one barely needing defence. As a result, arguments in favour of physicalism are typically held to a far lower standard of scrutiny than those opposing it.“
@finnthwaite.bsky.social
@finnthwaite.bsky.social
Substance Abuse
How Physicalists Get High on Their Own Supply
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“Within this culture, physicalism often functions not as a contested ontological thesis, but as a default assumption, one barely needing defence. As a result, arguments in favour of physicalism are typically held to a far lower standard of scrutiny than those opposing it.“
@finnthwaite.bsky.social
@finnthwaite.bsky.social
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Thanks to whoever gave/sold this to Skoob books. What a find! Excited to read the real thing rather than the PDFs.
October 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Thanks to whoever gave/sold this to Skoob books. What a find! Excited to read the real thing rather than the PDFs.
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it’s a competition.
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
it’s a competition.
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The Indispensability of Intuitions by @gnosishead.bsky.social . New in the Elements in Epistemology series. Free download till 5 November. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
The Indispensability of Intuitions
Cambridge Core - Epistemology and Metaphysics - The Indispensability of Intuitions
www.cambridge.org
October 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The Indispensability of Intuitions by @gnosishead.bsky.social . New in the Elements in Epistemology series. Free download till 5 November. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Maybe not surprising when you consider how much of academia functions as a refuge for weird little gremlins who just want to be left alone to work on our model trains
September 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Maybe not surprising when you consider how much of academia functions as a refuge for weird little gremlins who just want to be left alone to work on our model trains
It's too far-fetched, unfortunately.
This Trump administration is going to make such a great topic for an Armando Iannucci film.
September 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It's too far-fetched, unfortunately.
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Oh.
That doesn’t seem right
That doesn’t seem right
September 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Oh.
That doesn’t seem right
That doesn’t seem right
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people *always* see Superman and Clark Kent in the same place
September 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
people *always* see Superman and Clark Kent in the same place
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Here is "AI Consciousness: A Centrist Manifesto". I've been working on this feverishly because the issue seems to me so urgent - and I'm worried extreme positions on both sides are becoming locked in, when the best way forward is in the centre. Please read it! philpapers.org/rec/BIRACA-4
August 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Here is "AI Consciousness: A Centrist Manifesto". I've been working on this feverishly because the issue seems to me so urgent - and I'm worried extreme positions on both sides are becoming locked in, when the best way forward is in the centre. Please read it! philpapers.org/rec/BIRACA-4
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I'm honored to have my work featured in this workshop in Bochum, January 29-30 2026. See the poster for Call for papers, and list of excellent other speakers!
August 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I'm honored to have my work featured in this workshop in Bochum, January 29-30 2026. See the poster for Call for papers, and list of excellent other speakers!
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For all of us there should be some threshold where we put aside all our other projects and focus instead on resisting tyranny. It's just extremely difficult to see where that line is from the inside, when you're the frog being boiled.
August 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM
For all of us there should be some threshold where we put aside all our other projects and focus instead on resisting tyranny. It's just extremely difficult to see where that line is from the inside, when you're the frog being boiled.
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So grateful to everyone who helped me organise the Summer School on Panpsychism at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, as well as to everyone who attended! ☺️
Special thanks to our keynotes @heddamorch.bsky.social, @davidpapineau.bsky.social, and @philipgoff.bsky.social! 🙏🏻
Special thanks to our keynotes @heddamorch.bsky.social, @davidpapineau.bsky.social, and @philipgoff.bsky.social! 🙏🏻
July 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
So grateful to everyone who helped me organise the Summer School on Panpsychism at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, as well as to everyone who attended! ☺️
Special thanks to our keynotes @heddamorch.bsky.social, @davidpapineau.bsky.social, and @philipgoff.bsky.social! 🙏🏻
Special thanks to our keynotes @heddamorch.bsky.social, @davidpapineau.bsky.social, and @philipgoff.bsky.social! 🙏🏻