Up until very recently, I was an unaffiliated "armchair philosopher," but I'm currently at the U of A, filling in a few holes in my education with an eye toward grad school. I've given poster presentations at Toward a Science of Consciousness 2006 and 2008; the first concerned strange ontological and epistemological implications of materialist reductionism, while the second expanded on Diana Raffman's work on ineffability to suggest a fatal flaw in the materialist program, a diminished role for attention in consciousness, and the possibility of the long-sought "evidence that qualia exist." My current projects include an ontological and episte…

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