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Will Power
One of the central ideas developed by the German philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche, Perspectivism, is a philosophy which says that there can be various different conceptual schemes or perspectives towards anything, none of which is more correct that its rivals.
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Simulation Hypothesis
” Zeno: I heard you read a blog post about infinity written in the future. How was it? Archimedes: The post was informative, but I found it lacked originality. Zeno: Really? I’ve always found infinity to be a fascinating concept. Archimedes: It is a fascinating subject, but the author simply regurgitated what we already know.…
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About Everything
I once tried to narrate a story about everything. It was challenging. Where does one even start? And where does one even end? Stories have a beginning and an ending. Reality does not. And everything is both plus… more.
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Complexity
Now imagine the universe as a cup of coffee. When the cream and coffee are separate, it’s simple and organized it’s low entropy. When you mix them together, it’s high entropy and everything is disorganized and mixed together. But it’s in the middle, when swirls of cream are mixing into swirls of coffee, that you…
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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 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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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!?
Twishmay Shankar 