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Philosophy & Epistemology

A collection of 28 issues

A Reflective Journey Through Time, Entropy, and Causality

Time isn’t what it seems. Physics suggests past, present, and future exist simultaneously, yet we experience a relentless flow. Entropy fuels this illusion, causality anchors reality, and quantum uncertainty blurs fate. Do we shape time, or are we mere travelers in a fixed continuum?

A Universe of Chances : The Nature of Possibility and Probability

Let's discover how the tension between possibility and probability shapes our decisions, dreams, and sense of meaning. From Bayesian reasoning to quantum mysteries, this essay unravels the art of living boldly in uncertainty, balancing wonder and realism in an unpredictable world.

The Enduring Alchemy of Wonder

Why do we chase marvels, indulge in dreams, and embrace grand illusions — even in an age of reason? Let’s uncover the neuroscience, philosophy, and cultural forces that keep us enchanted by the extraordinary, revealing how wonder shapes both our delusions and our greatest achievements.

The Vectorized Mind : Memory, Thought, and Creativity in High Dimensions

Is our memory a biological search engine, powered by high-dimensional "data embeddings"? Let's Explore how thought and creativity arise from neural vectors. Are we just pattern matchers, or something far more profound? Let's dive in and decide ...

What Does It Mean to Think, to Question, to Understand?

What does it mean to think, question, and understand? Let’s delve into the paradoxes of thought, ethics of questioning, limits of understanding, the unknowable, and how misunderstanding fuels progress. Join me in reflecting on how we shape and are shaped by the collective human pursuit of clarity.

Thought’s Harmony : From Fragments to the Zeroth Entropy

What if humanity is a harmony of individual and collective thought, where matter arises from shared consciousness? This experiment ponders thought's duality, the chaos-order tension, and the dream of perfect symmetry — a zeroth entropy state, a glimpse of the divine.

When Idealism Stagnates : The Danger of Closed Systems

In the vast labyrinth of ideas, where human beings strive to construct systems that reflect their highest aspirations, there exists an inherent danger : the moment when ideals become rigid, unyielding, and closed. This danger is not confined to a particular ideology; it is a universal tendency, born out of our

Transmutation, Mutation, and Evolution : The Symphony of Errors and the Engine of Progress

The narrative of life, whether biological or intellectual, is one of transmutation — an alchemical, iterative process where change becomes the constant and error the catalyst. In both nature and human society, the fundamental unit of action is mutation, a mechanism driven by errors in processes that propel evolution. This principle,

Life, a Subset of Non-Life : The Absurdity of Consciousness

The Non-Life That Dreams of Itself There’s a subtle terror that grips me at times — a silent shudder of realization that everything I am, everything I’ve ever been, and everything I’ll ever be, is built on the scaffolding of non-life. Consciousness, that ineffable spark of “aliveness” I

The Paradigm Shift of Intelligence : How Generative AI Mirrors the Revolutions of Scientific Thought

By me (but, inspired by the spirit of Thomas S. Kuhn) The Machinery of the Mind There comes a time in the evolution of human thought when the old tools of inquiry fail to carve meaning into the chaos. We stand now, once again, at the edge of such a