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Twishmay Shankar

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  • December 30, 2015

    In Retrospect

    If the universe pressed the rewind button right now, will I be forced to do what I just did backwards in time? Will I be forced to “unwrite” this article? Or do I get a choice? Do I only get free will while moving forwards in time? The universe works in mysterious ways and only…

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    The Universe
    chaos, Everything, order, philosophy, retrospect, time
  • December 29, 2015

    The Purple Envelope

    “Keith, we never love people for what they are. We love their impressions in our minds.” A short story from 2012.

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    Everything, Life
    closure, fiction, love, philosophy, psychology, shortstory
  • December 21, 2015

    Joy of Doing Nothing

    “The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.” – Blaise Pascal I’ve been living through a terrible experiment for the past few months. And here is a summary of the results. Doing “nothing” is easier said than done. The idea of doing nothing after a while of…

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    Life
    action, experiment, Life, nothing, pascal, triangles
  • December 18, 2015

    I Think Therefore I Am

    Take a robot for example. A robot can talk to you, but how do you know if it can talk to itself? How are you supposed to know? How are you supposed to know what talks to itself, in what kind of a language, and how!?

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    Everything
    consciousness, Everything, existence, perception, philosophy, thoughts
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