An experimental personal conceptual knowledgebase.
A blog-based commonplace book.
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02, 2026
Perception as Prediction
“Vision is not the raw stream of sensory input from our eyes. [...]
27
01, 2026
Neuronal Nominalism
"The map is not the territory." —Alfred Korzybski Ordinary human [...]
2
04, 2025
The Sadistic Origins of Morality
In an amoral world, sadism bootstraps morality. A propensity [...]
14
01, 2025
Two Misconcepts of Liberty
Following Isaiah Berlin's analysis, freedom may be properly understood as [...]
12
10, 2024
Noumenal Nominalism
“When we go outside the sphere of perception and declare [...]
14
03, 2024
The limits of inquiry
As we approach the limits of inquiry, the inferences we [...]
1
05, 2021
Whitehead’s Both/And Panpsyschist Solution
Before it was formulated under the name, Alfred North Whitehead [...]
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04, 2021
Progress to and from
As noted in Dennett's Dangerous Idea, the human tendency to take [...]
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04, 2021
Dennett’s Dangerous Idea
As creatures with faculties of memory, imagination, understanding, and will, [...]
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04, 2021
Searle’s Empirical Realism
Philosopher John Searle makes a 4-quadrant distinction matrix combining [...]