AI, the creative soul, and what it means to be a person
A conversation on living our way into the mystery.
The machine, the movie, and the truth we fear
Three conversations about the assumptions that shape our experience.
The daemon and the doors of perception: An interview with James Fadiman
My 2012 conversation with James Fadiman about psychedelics, creative inspiration, the daimon, and the possibility of help from beyond the self.
It's all a matter of personal pathology: An interview with Thomas Ligotti
My 2006 interview with Ligotti, in which he discusses writing, anhedonia, the sources of his horror fiction, and what a perfect world might look like.
AI is not the muse
What generative AI can—and cannot—give the writer.
The ghost inside the human mind
A science headline recalls a speculative thinker and his vision of the divided self.