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Wittgenstein calls out crooked mental-health charlatans
While the reply-guys whine that "philosophy isn't practical", bad philosophy twists everything we know about the mind and mental health.
Can anyone be desireless?
Wanting to eliminate all wanting seems incoherent if you take it at face value. But there's more going on.
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Brains don't build pictures of the world (and you don't know the world through a mental picture)
These internet comments that assume "brains build pictures of reality" are teaching me that Kant, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein don't get nearly enough…
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Philosophy is dead and useless and you're doing it anyway
Love it, hate it, think it's mind poison—philosophy's got you no matter what.
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Elon's brain chip implant is rolling out and the consequences will blow your mind
Here's a concrete example of what I mean when I say people become more like machines as the machines become more life-like
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What Korzybski got wrong about the map and the territory
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Brains don't build pictures of the world (and you don't know the world through a mental picture)
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How you make writing hard on yourself (and what to do about it)
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Why ChatGPT is intelligent (and maybe you aren't)
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Our silent war with the androids
Are we stalked by inhuman machines living among us? A prescient science fiction author thought so.
Von Neumann's hall of mirrors
Much science done today studies nature by studying artificial models, but do you know how to tell them apart?
Where's the "should" in an avalanche?
Robert Sapolsky argues against freedom and responsibility in this latest shameless attempt by The Science to convince you that you aren't real.
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There is but one infinite game.
So writes James Carse in Finite and Infinite Games, inspiring the bloom of a thousand biz-gurus.
John Carpenter suspends natural law until the end of October
How Carpenter's horror movies reveal the sublime wonders and terrors slithering through the entrails of notional reality
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Answering the Vorlon question
Deep insights on being human found in a mostly-forgotten gem of 1990s science fiction television.
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The meaningless computer worlds of cognitive science
Jerome Bruner helped create cognitive science and there's a fascinating reason why he didn't care for the metaphor of the mind as a computer.
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The moral struggle to be a self
Our most sacred modern myth is that we live "beyond good and evil" and selfishly choose all our values. That's also a value judgment, but nobody wants…
Freedom isn't slavery, but it's not the freedom you know.
That's a fancy headline you got there Enos. Can you back it up?
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