I will of course keep the domain names and try to get things back up and running as soon as I can, but I have very little expertise for this sort of thing and already got lost in a quagmire of php configuration files etc.. It is happening because my current web-hosting service has presented me with a completely unaffordable bill for the next three years. A total menace, but this is what happens in the modern world.
Wednesday, November 12 2025
A (hopefully short) hiatus
Wednesday, November 12 2025.
I am having to move web-hosting for this blog and the main website at https://www.whatlifeis.info and https://www.whatlifeis.net.
If I was a web developer, or had one to hand, that would be easy enough, but I am not and have not.
So, whilst moving the website will not take too long, I think, the blog which is very much more complicated will take a lot of work and it may in the end be easier for me to just start again from scratch. I am just saying this so you will understand that whatlifeis and the blog will be offline for a brief time, but back as soon as I can get it working on a new web-host.
Thanks,
Keith.
Monday, June 30 2025
Truth, homeostasis and social cohesion
Monday, June 30 2025.
Contemplating what constitutes objective truth and what happens when we reject it -- nothing good! Tuesday, December 24 2024
How do you feel?
Tuesday, December 24 2024.
No, really, how do you feel?
I mean, where do subjective, qualitative ‘feelings’ come from? How are they made and by what?
Wednesday, December 11 2024
A country for old men
Wednesday, December 11 2024.
Why an increasing number of scientists do their most profound work in retirement.
Monday, April 29 2024
Should AI be emotional?
Monday, April 29 2024.
What would it be like if your computer had a mood control? AI is already being used to manipulate our emotions, what if it had them too? That is not at all far fetched, in fact it is a near certainty. Keith Farnsworth speculates about the consequences.
Friday, May 26 2023
Should we fear AI?
Friday, May 26 2023.
Here I join the current bandwagon of commentry on AI and its potential threat to humanity. My conclusion is rather more that we should fear ourselves.
Saturday, December 3 2022
Can we ever value biodiversity?
Saturday, December 3 2022.
Here I argue that value is real, not just public opinion, and that only by treating biodiversity as what it really is - information - can we ever properly account for its real value to us, to life and the universe.
Tuesday, June 21 2022
Why it Hurts: with freedom comes pain.
Tuesday, June 21 2022.
Pain might be the latest key to understanding how the autonomy of organisms works and how we are motivated to do things. In this post, I explain why a nasty nip led to deep thinking on consciousness, biological control systems and lobsters.
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