Playground of Ideas
Blog
2026
2025
Snow White is a Tree in Celtic Stories
2022
We cannot cope with randomness
The false marriage between quantum mechanics and consciousness
Reversing the Chinese Room: brains are computers, and all computers can feel and think
We cannot know if we have free will, and so maybe all science is broken
2021
Postface: ‘For the Righteous Shall Inherit the Land’
2019
Short story format for submission
2014
Don't Tell Me How It All Started: An Origin can Weaken your Story and Argument
Abandonment and the Origin of Religion
2013
The Essential Inability to Know Anything: How Time Renders Us Ignorant
My Brain is Too Simple to Be Writing This
2012
Empiricism and Lévi-Strauss's Scandal, or What did Derrida See?
How to read a writing and write a reading?
There is only one kind of author: The one which no one knows
On the dangers of reading Vonnegut
2009
Dream On -- a short story published
2008
On "The Harlot's House" by Oscar Wilde
On "At Dieppe" and "At Glan-y-Wern" by Arthur Symons
On "The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy
All the world's a page, And all the texts merely readings
"Don't kill or kidnap editors and agents who turn down your book."
On my artistic credo 3: Illusion and reality
On the wonders of Wimpole Street
On society as a symbolic order
On Jean Baudrillard, Lewis Black, and the cat who had enough