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New links… “Collecting is a game, but what kind of game? It is an imperfect information game of acquisition” — a theory of collecting, from Steven Hales “A general human tendency: to overestimate how far we have come in the progress of human knowledge” — a lengthy interview with Thomas Nagel “Many couples do not survive trauma like this” — A profile of Susan Brison—who was brutally attacked in 1990, and who wrote about it in Aftermath—and her husband, Thomas Trezise, who has now written his own book stemming from those events “Bad AI Consciousness Takes” Bingo Card — Henry Shevlin’s area of specialization is becoming a popular topic in popular discourse, and he can’t stand the “cavalcade of terrible takes” Does the principle of sufficient reason imply panpsychism? If it does, do we then ponens or tollens? — Sam Kimpton-Nye on these questions and the “demand for intelligibility” PTSD flashbacks may be harmful, but they may also be helpfully “resupplying phenomenal experience” to those…