Long-form explorations of contemporary issues through classical lenses.
Before you can choose how to live, you have to decide what reality actually is. Explore why metaphysics is the invisible foundation beneath all of our morals, politics, and choices.
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.
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.