Category: Distillation Paper

What’s it like to be you? Is it your thoughts and feelings, your physical body, or both? Something else entirely? In “What Is It Like…

Think of a memory you have from childhood. Maybe the first day of elementary school, or the first day of pre-k. Maybe you’re imagining a…

Kurt Vonnegut’s fictitious alien species, the Tralfamadorians, have an intriguing way of thinking about and existing in relation to time. As Vonnegut writes in Slaughterhouse-Five,…

Note: The intended audience for this paper is a group of students in a sociology class called “Death and Dying” who have never taken a…

Science can explain how we see, hear, and smell, and why we feel hunger. Increasingly, in the nearly 50 years since Thomas Nagel’s paper, “What…