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2026

Teaching algorithms

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

Work Bias

2021

Postface: ‘For the Righteous Shall Inherit the Land’

Da:|| Poem

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

Concerto

2013

The Essential Inability to Know Anything: How Time Renders Us Ignorant

No Country for

The Disappearing God

The Stupidity of Intuition

My Brain is Too Simple to Be Writing This

Move! Move!

I write...

2012

What's on Stage

Empiricism and Lévi-Strauss's Scandal, or What did Derrida See?

How to read a writing and write a reading?

Reading is Reading Reading

There is only one kind of author: The one which no one knows

On how literature works

On the dangers of reading Vonnegut

Derrida's Points of Departure

On high art vs popular art

On a Freudian Wordsworth

2009

Dream On -- a short story published

Don't tell, do show

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 my theatrical credo 2

On the sitcom and the theatre

On the wonders of Wimpole Street

On society as a symbolic order

On Jean Baudrillard, Lewis Black, and the cat who had enough

On science as Freudian wish-fulfilment