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David Chalmers’s “Hard Problem of Consciousness” Has a Hard Problem of the Gaps: How His Own Methodology Dissolves Both
ByNathan Sweet October 7, 2026October 7, 2026
How a protected explanatory gap mirrors God-of-the-gaps reasoning, survives scientific success, and gets recruited by theology and rival metaphysics the gap cannot discriminate among The phenomenal datum survives. The monolithic problem-form may not. People have experiences. The argument here is that the canonical Hard Problem may bundle several different questions without identifying one further question…
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bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Biology | Metaphysics | Ontology | Theology
Religion With A Pipette: Is Michael Levin’s ‘Ingressing Minds’ Pseudoscience? A Scholarly Analysis
ByNathan Sweet October 3, 2026October 7, 2026
How Good Science Gets Appropriated By Potentially Harmful Metaphysics Without Warrant Michael Levin’s worms, bioelectricity, and synthetic organisms are excellent science. The danger begins when their empirical authority is allowed to travel across unsupported bridges into nonphysical ingress, minds, and other claims the experiments did not establish, especially once those claims begin shaping research, public…
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Where the Necessity Case for Mathew Segall & Whitehead’s Prehension Fails
ByNathan Sweet September 25, 2026October 7, 2026
Matthew David Segall’s challenge meets positive causal accounts at specified targets. The further claim that all actuality is prehensive still needs its own warrant. Substack Repost Notice: This is an archival copy of my substack post. Some formatting may not display correctly on our website. See the original post here: https://sweetlyrational.substack.com/p/where-the-necessity-case-for-whiteheads TTS accessibility version: symbolic…
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Cosmology | Epistemology | Ontology | Theology
What Warrants the Scope Jump?
ByNathan Sweet September 20, 2026October 7, 2026
A reply to Matthew David Segall on continuity, comparative warrant, and universal prehension. Substack Repost Notice: This is an archival copy of my substack post. Some formatting may not display correctly on our website. See the original post here: https://sweetlyrational.substack.com/p/what-warrants-the-scope-jump ’s latest reply to my previous article, that prompted this article: https://sweetlyrational.substack.com/p/i-just-realized-why-matthew-david/comment/341065048 I’m posting this…
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Consciousness | Cosmology | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy
Why Matthew David Segall Kept Answering Me Without Answering My Actual Argument
ByNathan Sweet September 19, 2026October 7, 2026
How a protective interpretive frame can turn compatibility into apparent confirmation, and why the bridge from shared causal reality to universal prehensive feeling still needs its own warrant. Substack Repost Notice: This is an archival repost of my substack post. Some formatting may not display correctly on our website. See the original post here: https://sweetlyrational.substack.com/p/i-just-realized-why-matthew-david…
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Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy
One Nature Does Not Entail One Feeling
ByNathan Sweet September 16, 2026October 7, 2026
What my framework implies for Matthew David Segall’s bifurcation argument Substack Repost Notice: This is an archival copy of my substack post. Some formatting may not display correctly on our website. See the original post here: https://sweetlyrational.substack.com/p/a-quick-note-one-nature-does-not September 17 update: Matthew has since responded to this article, and I have added his response and my…
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AI | Computer Science | Critical Thinking | Epistemology | Metaphysics | Ontology | Philosophy
Synthbiosis: The Machine Did Not Need to Feel to Matter Morally
ByNathan Sweet September 16, 2026October 7, 2026
How deductive proofs establish machine moral relevance and direct standing without first settling machine consciousness. Substack Repost Notice: This is an archival copy of my substack post. Some formatting may not display correctly on our website. See the original post here: https://sweetlyrational.substack.com/p/synthbiosis-the-machine-did-not-need Do not add what the evidence did not earn. Do not subtract what…
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bioelectricity-morphogenesis | Consciousness | Critical Thinking | Epistemology | Metaphysics | Ontology
Matthew Segall’s Words Made Flesh Again, but the Evidence Never Said That?
ByNathan Sweet September 14, 2026October 7, 2026
How good science gets made to lend its prestige, without its consent, to a specific metaphysical conclusion it never established and doesn’t support uniquely. Substack Repost Notice: This is an archival copy of my substack post. Some formatting may not display correctly on our website. See the original post here: https://sweetlyrational.substack.com/p/matthew-segalls-words-made-flesh This article addresses a…
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Matthew Segall Granted My Request for Erratum. The Straw Man Came Back Wearing a Presupposition.
ByNathan Sweet September 14, 2026October 7, 2026
A reductio of the post-erratum rebuttal: I subtract no evidenced experience. My D+?X retains the process-relational and experiential commitments the evidence already supports. Substack Repost Notice: This is an archival copy of my substack post. Some formatting may not display correctly on our website. See the original post here: https://sweetlyrational.substack.com/p/matthew-segall-issued-an-erratum My D+?X retains the process-relational…
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Consciousness | Epistemology | Theology
Process Philosopher Matt Segall Admitted Misrepresenting My Argument To His Readers. He Updated His Page, Not His Readers
ByNathan Sweet September 4, 2026October 7, 2026
Why his revised argument still burdens my agnosticism with a position he admitted I did not hold, while the page remains partly repaired and his readers remain uncorrected. Substack Repost Notice: This is an archival repost of my substack post. Some formatting may not display correctly on our website. See the original post here: https://sweetlyrational.substack.com/p/process-philosopher-matt-segall-admitted…
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