I’m really am partial to the Schachter-Singer two-factor theory of emotion as it seems to jive well with my own experience of emotion. The idea is that arousal in the body does not have a built-in emotional label, it is just raw energy. Your heart races, adrenaline floods in, your breathing quickens, and your muscles […]
China supposedly has the artificial womb robot, but who knows if that’s real or just Cold War style propaganda where both sides lie about how close they are to the moon. Still, if anyone was gonna do it first it’d be China, cause they don’t give a fuck. Rocking CRISPR all day. Medical ethics btfo. […]
I’ve written about this before, but I often see sentiments like the one in the below photo posted in philosophy forums and so I compiled a more specific response to this type of thinking: That’s a misunderstanding of what emotions are. Emotions aren’t some enemy to reason, they are reason in action, just in a […]
MA in Philosophy, Dissertation October 4th 2024 11,999 Words Abstract This dissertation is an exploration of the state of discourse surrounding the nature of consciousness in both science and philosophy for the purpose of determining where consciousness studies currently fall within Thomas Kuhn’s framework of the structure of scientific revolutions. After laying out Kuhn’s framework […]
i’ve been attempting for some time now to put into words how I visualize my understanding of information and how it ties into a larger ontology. I won’t say this is perfect, it definitely still needs refining but I think it’s a start. I visualize the entirety of human essence as a vast and ever-shifting […]
We often overvalue logic, treating it as the pinnacle of human cognition, while deriding emotion as irrational and unreliable. Yet this is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the mind works. Those who pride themselves on relying purely on logic are often delusional, blind to the ways in which their decisions are shaped by unconscious emotional […]
Sentient Roomba 