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Aaron

Rationality vs Mythology

Based on my last post, you may think that rationality is the underlying bedrock of every non-trivial thing that we say or do. It seems…

1 min readAug 31, 2020

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Rationality vs Mythology

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Aaron

Can the Truth be whatever you want?

There was a self-improvement course I remember seeing ads for that had the intriguing tagline “Create the Reality Your Prefer!”

2 min readAug 31, 2020

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Aaron

Selves and Greedy Reductionism

The simplified view of our consciousness and our selves is not one that is typically accepted by philosophers, or at least the ones I’ve…

2 min readAug 29, 2020

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Selves and Greedy Reductionism

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Aaron

And now for something completely different…

1 min readAug 28, 2020

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And now for something completely different…

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Aaron

Free Will

It’s something that I’ve been ruminating about since high school: just how much control do we have over our lives? That got me to the more…

2 min readAug 27, 2020

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Free Will

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Aaron

Truth as Will

Nietzsche, in his notebooks, suggest a pretty radical outlook on Truth. He rejects a lot of rationalism, and even the sense of cause and…

1 min readAug 26, 2020

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Truth as Will

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Aaron

Feelings and Truth

When people talk about Truth, they come at it from two different ways, either discussing a rational, unemotional approach, or a high…

1 min readAug 25, 2020

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Feelings and Truth

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Aaron

Truth in the Time of COVID-19

Most people these days feel we are living in a time of crisis. For some (in my experience most), it’s a public health crisis. We are…

3 min readAug 24, 2020

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Truth in the Time of COVID-19

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Aaron

Truth vs What We Want

There’s a popular notion among New Age circles that we create our truths, and the world conforms to our beliefs. A somewhat weaker notion…

1 min readAug 24, 2020

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Truth vs What We Want

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Aaron

Truths We’re Afraid Of

What if there’s nothing after this life?

2 min readAug 23, 2020

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Truths We’re Afraid Of

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Aaron

Aaron

Very interested in a wide variety of philosophical, techy, geeky, political, and economic type things, especially where these areas intersect.

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