August 31, 2025

Weekly Distractions for August 31, 2025

🧠 Links

AI

- Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness: A Functional Perspective ### Philosophy - Rationalism and Cults

### Book Club - David Bowie’s Book Club

📖 Currently Reading

• Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Three Hainish Novels by Ursula Leguin
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

📚 Recent Book Commentary

• The Mercy of Gods by James A. Corey

  A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold