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Why Vico said that history was more true than physics
A brief note about Giambattista Vico's theory of knowledge and science based on a key insight from his Scienza Nuova (New Science)
Jun 7, 2024
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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.
May 29, 2024
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Can anyone be desireless?
Wanting to eliminate all wanting seems incoherent if you take it at face value. But there's more going on.
May 15, 2024
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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…
Apr 17, 2024
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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.
Apr 3, 2024
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What Korzybski got wrong about the map and the territory
Mar 13, 2023
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Brains don't build pictures of the world (and you don't know the world through a mental picture)
Apr 17, 2024
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How you make writing hard on yourself (and what to do about it)
Aug 5, 2023
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Why ChatGPT is intelligent (and maybe you aren't)
Feb 20, 2023
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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
Mar 27, 2024
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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.
Mar 20, 2024
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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?
Nov 17, 2023
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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.
Nov 10, 2023
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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.
Nov 3, 2023
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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
Oct 27, 2023
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Answering the Vorlon question
Deep insights on being human found in a mostly-forgotten gem of 1990s science fiction television.
Oct 20, 2023
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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.
Oct 6, 2023
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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…
Sep 29, 2023
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