Essays by Jasper Lammers on existence, consciousness and identity.https://jasperlammers.com/enhttps://jasperlammers.com/essays/the-fate-of-our-children/https://jasperlammers.com/essays/the-fate-of-our-children/A short piece by Jasper Lammers from 2025. It imagines the machines we are building to surpass us, and asks what existence would be like for them.Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://jasperlammers.com/essays/the-case-for-karma/https://jasperlammers.com/essays/the-case-for-karma/A case for karma without a cosmic ledger, built on what "you" means over time. An essay by Jasper Lammers, 2020.Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://jasperlammers.com/essays/origin-of-consciousness/https://jasperlammers.com/essays/origin-of-consciousness/Every consciousness except your own, right now, is a belief. A short essay by Jasper Lammers, 2020.Sun, 05 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://jasperlammers.com/essays/conscious-deterministic-simulation/https://jasperlammers.com/essays/conscious-deterministic-simulation/If a deterministic computer program could be conscious, what follows for free will, time and identity? An essay by Jasper Lammers, 2019.Wed, 26 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://jasperlammers.com/essays/matter-over-mind/https://jasperlammers.com/essays/matter-over-mind/If consciousness comes from matter, is it a fundamental force or a chocolate cake? An essay by Jasper Lammers, 2018.Wed, 19 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://jasperlammers.com/essays/familiar-existence/https://jasperlammers.com/essays/familiar-existence/The physical world feels most real, yet the mind is the one thing we know exists. An essay by Jasper Lammers, 2018.Thu, 06 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://jasperlammers.com/essays/the-white-room/https://jasperlammers.com/essays/the-white-room/A perfect copy of you appears across a white room. Which one is you? A short thought experiment by Jasper Lammers, 2018.Tue, 21 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://jasperlammers.com/essays/a-map-of-existence/https://jasperlammers.com/essays/a-map-of-existence/Why is there something rather than nothing? An essay by Jasper Lammers on nothing, everything and the limits of what we can fathom. 2018.Sat, 21 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://jasperlammers.com/essays/existence-part-5/https://jasperlammers.com/essays/existence-part-5/Part 5 of the Existence series by Jasper Lammers (2018): islands of the fathomable in a sea of the unfathomable.Sat, 07 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://jasperlammers.com/essays/existence-part-4/https://jasperlammers.com/essays/existence-part-4/Part 4 of the Existence series by Jasper Lammers (2018): the mind as a sense, and the limits of the fathomable.Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://jasperlammers.com/essays/existence-part-3/https://jasperlammers.com/essays/existence-part-3/Part 3 of the Existence series by Jasper Lammers (2018): if nothing is not a thing, existence is everything. Infinite.Sat, 05 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://jasperlammers.com/essays/existence-part-2/https://jasperlammers.com/essays/existence-part-2/Part 2 of the Existence series by Jasper Lammers (2018): why nothing, taken literally, is not a thing.Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://jasperlammers.com/essays/existence-part-1/https://jasperlammers.com/essays/existence-part-1/Part 1 of the Existence series by Jasper Lammers (2018): why the search for what existence is has to start beyond our own frame of reference.Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT