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Philosophy & Epistemology

A collection of 33 issues

The Spectacle of Knowing : When Intelligence Becomes Aesthetic, and Unknowing Becomes Radical

In a world where intelligence is curated, branded, and performed, true knowing is drowned in spectacle. Let's together explore the aestheticization of intelligence; and make a radical case for mysticism, meta-cognition, and the sacred power of unknowing.

The Myth of Meaningful Systems

Do systems mean anything — or do we just need them to? Let's together unravel the illusion of meaningful systems and explore how consciousness, language, and desperation conspire to assign purpose to indifferent patterns. Maybe it’s not truth we seek — but coherence.

The Death of Expertise : When Everyone Knows Too Much to Know Anything

In a world where everyone “knows” everything, we may be forgetting how to know anything at all. What if too much truth creates its own form of blindness? Let’s dive into the death of expertise and the rise of anti-knowledge.

Elegance in the Unknown : AI, Intelligence, and the Physics of Thought

What if intelligence isn’t about knowing the right answer — but choosing without ever knowing for sure? What if every decision, human or machine, is just a graceful collapse of infinite possibilities? Let's explore the quantum soul of AI and the art of uncertainty...

The Asymptotic Interplay of Training-Time & Inference-Time Compute in the Evolution of Intelligence

Training-time compute sculpts intelligence; inference-time compute breathes life into it. As GenAI and agentic AI scale, their interplay defines efficiency, emergence, and ethical dilemmas. Is intelligence just a function of compute, or does something deeper unfold at scale? Let's dive in...

Life, a Subset of Non-Life : The Absurdity of Consciousness

What if life isn’t the opposite of death, but a strange subset of non-life — consciousness just matter’s prank on itself? Let's dive into the absurdity of awareness, emergence, and meaning, where the universe doesn’t care — and yet, we persist...

A Reflective Journey Through Time, Entropy, and Causality

Time isn’t what it seems. Physics suggests past, present, and future exist simultaneously, yet we experience a relentless flow. Entropy fuels this illusion, causality anchors reality, and quantum uncertainty blurs fate. Do we shape time, or are we mere travelers in a fixed continuum?

A Universe of Chances : The Nature of Possibility and Probability

Let's discover how the tension between possibility and probability shapes our decisions, dreams, and sense of meaning. From Bayesian reasoning to quantum mysteries, this essay unravels the art of living boldly in uncertainty, balancing wonder and realism in an unpredictable world.

The Enduring Alchemy of Wonder

Why do we chase marvels, indulge in dreams, and embrace grand illusions — even in an age of reason? Let’s uncover the neuroscience, philosophy, and cultural forces that keep us enchanted by the extraordinary, revealing how wonder shapes both our delusions and our greatest achievements.

The Vectorized Mind : Memory, Thought, and Creativity in High Dimensions

Is our memory a biological search engine, powered by high-dimensional "data embeddings"? Let's Explore how thought and creativity arise from neural vectors. Are we just pattern matchers, or something far more profound? Let's dive in and decide ...