It is predator and prey: moral rage requires blurring distinctions; ethics, drawing the conspicuous distinctions back in. What culture does, rational ethics must clean up….

Pascal’s Wager II: in the near future, with AI driven discovery, immortal life may actually be possible. Should you spend the rest of your efforts,…

Who am I? That depends entirely upon what you think you are. * At some point, silence became language. It itself was there first, but…

Daydreams are repetitive; introspections, iterative. * A fair trade does not mean equal benefit or risk, for a reason. One cannot examine a trade outside…

Truth is any otherwise plain fact which is currently in high demand. * Now: Precisely wherever you are. Here: Precisely now. * Aphorisms are highlights…

It was a life of adventure, not a 9 to 5 job. Treasures were discovered, tragedies hit. Nonetheless, the philosopher proved it all to be…

I think; therefore, “I” am. Because, It was me all along. * A fake is not an objection to reality. On the contrary, the discovery…

That criticism was how I balanced myself against the path I did not take … a statement which came back to bite me on the…

Freedom is the feeling that one no longer bears a responsibility for at least trying to manage consequences. * Art is what survives acknowledgement of…

Genius shovels loads of pleasure into the furnace, to the maximum, so that discipline’s hard labor cannot feel itself to be so deserving that it…