The ethics of Grand Theft Auto (youtu.be)
Optimistic nihilism
"the ability of a person to create his own meaning after fully accepting that the universe is a large place of meaninglessness."...
Thoughts on morbid curiosity?
Life is...well, it's something alright....
I Finally Understand Speciesism and Now I Can't Sleep (youtu.be)
A journey to understand the hidden prejudice that nobody takes seriously.
The pleasure paradox (iai.tv)
Most agree that health is better than sickness, abundance is better than poverty, and peace is better than war. But many now point to a fundamental problem. Despite better access to healthcare, education, and more disposable income, cases of depression have increased by over 50% worldwide since 1997. Research shows that richer...
Socrates thought philosophy’s role was to prepare us for death, yet most doctrines largely omit the experience and meaning of grief – of dealing with the death of a loved one. Music, and aesthetics more broadly, can help fill that gap. | Kathleen Higgins (iai.tv)
Philosophers have had surprisingly little to say about the experience and meaning of grief. In this interview, Kathleen Higgins rights that wrong and argues that grief has a deep connection to art, especially music, in the way it disrupts but also reorients our relationship to the world and others.
Urgent Analysis of Heidegger's Work post-Black Notebooks Reveal Nazism Entwined with Philosophy; cover up of revealing marks by family (lareviewofbooks.org)
Richard Wolin shows how Martin Heidegger’s literary executors manipulated his manuscripts to disguise and downplay the philosopher’s antisemitism....
The Identity Dissonance of Our Times Comes From the Struggle Between the Inner and Outer Self (powerknowledge.substack.com)
On the dissonance of the free prisoner
Taco Bell and the Paradox of Ironic Appreciation - Aesthetics for Birds (aestheticsforbirds.com)
If you like something ironically, do you actually like it or not? Paradoxically, the answer seems to be yes AND no.
What are Logos, Nature, and Reason in Stoicism?
Short answer: Nature is governed by the logos which is based on reason....
Philosophical Experiments Lain: Ambiguity and Theory (SPOILERS)
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE SHOW SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN....
The dark ideology of self help | Alexis Papazoglou (iai.tv)
We were designed to enjoy life's pleasures, not just to constantly seek self-improvement. Today’s self-help ideology echoes Nietzsche’s concern about the dangers of ascetic practices as a form of self-punishment.
Cognitive bias cheat sheet, simplified | by Buster Benson | Why Are We Yelling? | Medium | Ghostarchive (ghostarchive.org)
Voltaire 101
I recently got interested about the Age of Enlightenment, and more specifically Voltaire - and would like to read some of his works to understand him better....
OC If there was a personalized universe. Would you go there?
Imagine a future where technology has advanced to an extent enabling the creation of an customized universe, for every individual. This extraordinary realm would be finely tuned to match each persons preferences, values and aspirations. Within this universe individuals would have control over their surroundings and experiences....
Consciousness Is In Your Head. I Consulted Einstein (nautil.us)
How the theory of relativity explains our minds.
Nature of humans
Human beings are hardwired to think about mundane irrelevant things periodically even if we elevate our state of consciousness to an higher level of thinking.The effect is ephemeral and we tend to go back or settle down to a lower tier again. It’s like constantly running away from darkness in search of light,(i.e the big...
The Complexity of Seneca – by Maxwell Lynn (modernstoicism.com)
Statesman, Stoic, and millionaire. How can we find virtue in Seneca’s complex and even contradictory lifestyle? ‘This, I say, is the highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom, – that deed and wo…
The Living Philosophy of Diogenes the Cynic (thelivingphilosophy.substack.com)
The most based philosopher of all time
OC In A Universe With Only 1 Person, Can That Person Be Immoral?
As a thought experiment, consider a reality with a single human. There are no other humans, animals, or anything of that nature. Not in the past, present, or future....
Wired Article on the Morality of Deep Fake Porn (kbin.social)
Crosspost from @technology
OC In Defense of Platonism. We are not in simulation, but we are numbers or information.
This is a series of proposition that leads to the conclusion (somewhat convincing in my eyes) that we are not physical, but informational/numerical/mathematical structures....
OC An Argument Against the "Mary's Room" Thought Experiment
In the thought experiment Mary's Room, it is argued that Mary gains new knowledge about the colour red when she leaves the room....
This Greek Philosopher Died Laughing at His Own Joke (theculturetrip.com)
Bettina Bergo: The Ambiguity of Anxiety" (www.youtube.com)
In this lecture Bergo presents a really interesting survey of how anxiety has been understood through the history of philosophy. Special attention to how Schopenhauer and Darwin use the term. the audio is bad, but I found it worthwhile....
