The Perfectly Curated Lie: Why Your Morality is Just Biology in a Tuxedo
Exploring the biological roots of our moral intuitions and the three primal driving forces behind every decision we make.
Long-form explorations of contemporary issues through classical lenses.
Exploring the biological roots of our moral intuitions and the three primal driving forces behind every decision we make.
The true power of logic lies in its ability to strip away emotional ambiguity through propositional form,allowing us to identify the hidden architecture of our arguments. By touching on the principle of explosion and the emergence of specialized fields like modal and fuzzy logic, the piece concludes that logic is not just a mechanism for winning debates, but a practice of cognitive hygiene essential for navigating a complex and messy world.
Our feelings of free will and agency are simply illusions generated by a deterministic brain, the essay challenges our fundamental sense of identity. It concludes with the provocative notion that consciousness is an accidental evolutionary spandrel—a beautiful, haunting hum of the biological amplifier that believes itself to be the song, even as it remains causally powerless over the machine it inhabits.
A deep dive into decision-making and free will.
Exploring the meaning and role of boredom in our lives.