Philosophy
What I Learned About That Difficult Childhood
On a changing—and perhaps transcending—perspective on pain.
Everyone Can Set You Up for Failure, Not Everyone Sets You Up for Success
On a conscious choice that we can make, and that we best make sure others make.
Not Knowable
Casual appreciation about our dealing with knowledge.
The Assessment Paradox
For any individual or group we may think that it can assess itself best because it knows itself best. Yet this is not reliable. We may then think it’s other individuals or groups interacting with that first individual or group who may be able to assess it. This is not so, either.
Exploitation
What and who is easiest to take advantage of and exploit, how is that being justified, and what can be done about it? On one piece of the puzzle what the fewest things are that need changing, to change everything.
Julia and Sybil
The early manuscript of a novel I started in 2015, and that will still take a few years to be finished.
Why Online Communication Is So Not-Great
Why is online communication so, meh? An approach that considers context, training, and world views, for a much more complicated topic.
Existence and Experience
How can something-exists experience itself?
The Good Things About All the Problems
On things we cannot meaningfully discuss, and the sequel to The Problems With All the Good Things that may never be.
New Book: “The Problems With All the Good Things”
When good is considered unproblematic, and everything can be shown to be problematic, then—partner up with AI.
Give
On one-things and lack.
Highlights From “The Social Contract” (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.”
Highlights From “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” (Max Weber)
“The modern rational organization of the capitalistic enterprise would not have been possible without two other important factors in its development: the separation of business from the household, which completely dominates modern economic life, and closely connected with it, rational book-keeping.”
“The One With the Biggest Hammer Wins”
On a game we could stop playing.
3 Books for Working With Reality
With or without The Complete Conversations With God, The Nature of Personal Reality, and Loving What Is?
The Choice to F Up
On the things we are doing and not doing, how these things are not and cannot be accidents, and how it all revolves around choice.
Highlights From “An Introduction to Psychology” (Wilhelm Wundt)
“There cannot be the least contradiction in the idea that physical and psychical phenomena follow different laws, as long as these laws are not irreconcilable with the actual unity of the psycho-physical individual.”
Counter the Happiness Assumption
It may be rather clear that life is not all about being happy.
Highlights From “Free Thought and Official Propaganda” (Bertrand Russell)
“Our system of education turns young people out of the schools able to read, but for the most part unable to weigh evidence or to form an independent opinion.”
What Happened on Google+, the Philosophy Archives
Google+ is shutting down, pulling everything with it. I’ve used Google+. And although I’ve changed and would put a few things differently now, I decided to archive a few of the somewhat philosophical Google+ posts.
Survival of the Primitive
Is ours a highly evolved culture?
Highlights From “Flatland” (Edwin Abbott Abbott)
“Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs, in some manner, I know not how, may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.”
The One Thing We May Really Want to Research
My back-burner philosophical work revolves around one idea: that what creates and makes for our reality, in quite practical terms, is what we believe. That idea is profound and requires more: research.
Highlights From “The Communist Manifesto” (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels)
“This organisation of the proletarians into a class, and consequently into a political party, is continually being upset again by the competition between the workers themselves.”
What We Know
On some days, if you asked me about what we know, with absolute certainty, I’d respond with “only that something exists.” And if you asked me what that meant, then I’d add “to appreciate and work with what exists.”
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