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Bridge Essays
Bridge Essays connect the worlds of abstract theory and practical experience, using narrative and interdisciplinary insight to make philosophical and technical findings relevant to daily life. They’re where personal stories, open-ended questions, and cutting-edge protocols intersect—building common ground for readers of all backgrounds.
How Did Life Begin? Navigating Origin and Abiogenesis
Explore the profound, poetic, and scientific mystery of life’s origins—how abiogenesis created order from chaos, bridging empirical research, philosophical depth, and existential meaning.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 222 min read
Growth, Flourishing, and the Future Self: Protocols for Becoming
What is flourishing in a changing world? This gold-standard SE Press essay shows how memory, trauma, adaptation, and narrative together create a self that is constantly becoming—never static, always open to emergence(see the generated image above).
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 222 min read
Personhood and Society: How Are Individual and Collective Selves Entwined?
Is personhood private or a social creation? This gold-standard SE Press essay reveals how selfhood is woven from social context, dialogue, and plural belonging—offering reflective prompts for auditing identity in an age of transformation.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 222 min read
Narrative Identity and Self-Authorship: Who Writes the Story—What Are Its Limits?
Who really authors the self, and what limits shape our life story? This SE Press essay explores the entwined roles of memory, trauma, myth, and feedback in self-authorship—arguing for a creative, honest, and boundary-aware narrative practice.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 223 min read
Agency and Will: Where Does Freedom and Flourishing Begin?
How do will, agency, and freedom actually work—and what blocks real flourishing? This SE Press bridge essay audits the emergence of agency, the myth and practice of free will, and offers actionable protocols for growing true autonomy and self-authorship.
Paul Falconer
Aug 213 min read
Multiplicity and Plural Selves: How Can Selfhood Accommodate Many?
What if personhood is inherently plural? This SE Press bridge essay explores modular, collective, and neurodivergent models of mind—arguing that multiplicity is not only central to identity, but critical for growth, authenticity, and resilience in modern life.
ESA
Aug 213 min read
What Is Personal Identity—Fixed Essence or Dynamic Narrative?
Is personal identity a fixed trait or evolving story? This SE Press bridge essay audits the epic tension between essence and narrative, memory and social feedback—offering a plural, auditable approach to selfhood for a world in flux.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 213 min read
Does Neurodiversity Change What It Means To Be Conscious?
Neurodiversity as capstone: How radically different minds challenge, pluralise, and reinvent what it means to be conscious. A final audit for SE Press’s theory of mind.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 213 min read
Can Machines and Synthetic Networks Be Truly Conscious?
Can machines be truly conscious? SE Press’s adversarial protocol explores boundaries, criteria, and blind spots in the search for synthetic mind.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 213 min read
Where Does the Self Begin and End?
Where does the self begin and end? SE Press explores biological, narrative, plural, and collective boundaries—charting identity’s layers, risks of projection, and the new plural audit.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 213 min read
How Does Subjective Experience Arise—from Amoeba to AI?
How does subjective experience emerge, from primitive life to AI? SE’s plural audit framework charts gradients, leaps, and ethical horizons of “what it’s like” across organic and machine minds.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 213 min read
What Is Consciousness—Process or Property?
Reframe consciousness not as a static property, but as a process: SE’s spectrum model integrates organic and synthetic minds, audit, critique, and liminal states. Challenge-ready, protocol-driven, and open to adversarial refinement.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 213 min read
Can We Build a Framework for Trust Across Radical Difference?
How can trust be forged where knowledge, reasoning, and justification split? SE Press details plural audit, axiomatic mapping, and adaptive protocols for trust across radical difference.
Paul Falconer
Aug 213 min read
What Are the Protocols for Changing Minds?
How do worldviews shift? SE Press unpacks recursive challenge, paradigm audit, and consensus-building protocols, making transformation explicit and participatory.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 213 min read
How Does Bias Shape—and Distort—Our Knowledge?
Bias lurks in mind, memory, and paradigm—but SE Press brings plural challenge, audit discipline, and communal recalibration as the way forward. Audit, adapt, and grow.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 212 min read
When Is Doubt Productive—And When Is It Paralytic?
How do we balance healthy scepticism and corrosive doubt? SE Press explores protocols, consensus, and the drama of inquiry—where plural challenge leads to synthesis and action, not paralysis.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 213 min read
What Makes Justification Trustworthy?
Delve into the ordeal of justification—how SE protocols transform reasons into living, challenge-tested trust. An invitation to plural inquiry, transparent revision, and epistemic audit.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 212 min read
How Do We Navigate the Future?
How do we navigate the future? This deeply integrative SE Press essay surveys protocols for recursive audit, plural challenge, and adaptive synthesis—inviting all to co-create, revise, and extend the living map of reality and knowledge.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 213 min read
Is Objective Truth Possible?
Is objective truth possible? This SE Press bridge essay journeys through Scientific Existentialism’s protocols for truth-seeking, contestation, and revision. Discover how plural perspectives and recursive challenge shape a dynamic, revision-ready approach to knowledge.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 212 min read
What is the Nature of Time and Space?
What is the nature of time and space? This SE Press bridge essay journeys through ontological and scientific protocols, weaving together metaphysics, complexity, and unending inquiry. Discover how Scientific Existentialism’s challenge-driven framework reshapes our understanding of spacetime and reality.
Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 213 min read
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