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Recent Posts

  • AI is acting more like an organism and less like a machine. So what’s special about us humans?
  • Feeling that we’re part of the natural world makes life go more easily
  • Reasonist may be a better term for us unbelievers than atheist
  • Austere physicalism may sound unappealing, but actually it is a great philosophy of life
  • In praise of the strangeness of everyday life

Recent Comments

  1. Tim Rimmer on AI is acting more like an organism and less like a machine. So what’s special about us humans?July 21, 2026
  2. Spencer Tepper on AI is acting more like an organism and less like a machine. So what’s special about us humans?July 21, 2026
  3. Appreciative Reader on Austere physicalism may sound unappealing, but actually it is a great philosophy of lifeJuly 21, 2026
  4. Christopher on AI is acting more like an organism and less like a machine. So what’s special about us humans?July 21, 2026
  5. Spencer Tepper on Feeling that we’re part of the natural world makes life go more easilyJuly 21, 2026

Books

Brian Hines: Break Free of Dogma: Churchless sermons preaching the gospel of spiritual independence

Brian Hines: Break Free of Dogma: Churchless sermons preaching the gospel of spiritual independence

Brian Hines: Life is Fair: The Law of Cause and Effect

Brian Hines: Life is Fair: The Law of Cause and Effect

Brian Hines: God's Whisper, Creation's Thunder: Echoes of Spiritual Reality In the New Physics

Brian Hines: God's Whisper, Creation's Thunder: Echoes of Spiritual Reality In the New Physics

Brian Hines: Return to the One: Plotinus's Guide to God-Realization.

Brian Hines: Return to the One: Plotinus's Guide to God-Realization.

About Brian Hines

I’m a retired health policy analyst in Salem, Oregon, with three blogs and four books, including Break Free of Dogma.

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  • AI is acting more like an organism and less like a machine. So what’s special about us humans?July 20, 2026
  • Feeling that we’re part of the natural world makes life go more easilyJuly 18, 2026
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