1/2 🎇 Good news! 🎇 The kind people at Behavioral and Brain Science have made the new collection on "Conscious AI and biological naturalism" #OpenAccess for a limited time: target article, all 50 commentaries, & my response. Go to the link and click 'save pdf': doi.org/10.1017/S014.... Do share!

Londoners! Please come to this very special launch event for LESSONS IN HARMONY on November 10.

Not just me talking about the book, but also @philippeauclair.bsky.social in the chair, and music by Ravel and Vaughan Williams performed by world-class musicians.

Brand new on This Itch of Writing, to help you think about your own drafting, editing or sorting out of the parts of your project that feedback has suggested are a bit meh, or worse!

Seven of the Best Storytelling Tools That Don’t Get Talked About Enough: buff.ly/8X6I0TZ

Life www.tumblr.com/thefragman/8...

Ned Block on the rise of the zombie AIs. With a reply by me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-0o...

I reviewed the exhibition on fairy painter Richard Dadd at
@royalacademyarts.bsky.social: drfrancisyoung.com/2026/10/01/e... 🧚‍♀️

BIG NEWS!

I am launching a new podcast together with colleagues from the Cluster of Excellence on Cross-Cultural Philology here at the LMU in Munich. It's called Pages of History and will appear once a month, following today's initial launch with three episodes.

pagesofhistorypodcast.net

Have you always wanted to see me standing unsteadily on a ship at sea while talking manically about illusionism and reactivity? Then this is your lucky day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqkO...

Reactivity and Illusion: A Post-Cartesian Perspective on the Distribution Question. Keith Frankish - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqkO...

📚 Our Cambridge Element on Mental Fictionalism is out now and available free until 19th October! 📚 Download it here: doi.org/10.1017/9781... @keithfrankish.com @universitypress.cambridge.org #philsky #philmind #philpsy #cogsci

What if consciousness isn't real? By @timbayne.bsky.social in @sciam.bsky.social

"we should ask whether bees, babies or bots are conscious. But in asking that question, we should be alive to the possibility that the question itself might need replacing."

www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...