How to Increase Your Computer Efficiency With Shortcuts
Everyone knows the scene. The computer hacker, often with a ridiculous time constraint, is tasked with breaking into a virtual environment or stopping others from breaking into theirs. Often typing streams of green text, their fingers caress the keyboard in a seamless blur, putting thought into action and controlling the computer with simultaneous grace and…
Notes on Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
Some Useful Terms Ethics is the subfield of philosophy concerning the nature of right and wrong. Normative ethics is the subfield of Ethics concerning what standards to use when judging what we morally ought to do.Consequentialism is a normative ethical theory that judges the rightness or wrongness of actions entirely on their consequences or effects.Utilitarianism is…
How I (Try to) Stay Productive: A List of Tips
Jump to the list of tips As I wrote about last week, the internet age has given us countless devices and apps designed to distract. It still is sometimes hard to distinguish where exactly an activity transforms itself from useful, or harmlessly entertaining, to full on distracting. However, what seems clear to me, is that…
Bottlenecks to Progress in the Internet Age
I have been reading A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny and it resurfaced thoughts that I have often had when learning about historical figures and everyday life in prior eras. In particular, how these figures were able to overcome the dual problems of censorship of political and religious elites and the limited availability…
Consciousness: What it is and why it matters
This is part one in a series on consciousness I’ve desired for some time to begin writing about my view on philosophical topics in an approachable but serious manner. With the advent of a new year, I figured I would now begin publishing weekly posts in this vein, starting with a series of posts on…
Consciousness: Where it might not be
This is a part two in a series on consciousness Continuing from last week’s post, I shall explore avenues on how exactly one can doubt the consciousness of objects you encounter. Again, by consciousness I mean any type of experience something or someone might have; or what it is like to be something. From the…
Consciousness: Why people think it might not be everywhere
This is a part three in a series on consciousness Last week, I introduced the intuition that things “that are not (sufficiently) similar enough to us are not conscious.” This intuition matters because, without it, there is no way to ground a restrictive theory of consciousness. Put another way, without this intuition, you would find…
Consciousness: The relationship with the current physicalist worldview
This is part four in a series on consciousness Last week, I discussed how to justify any restrictive theory of consciousness (that is, any theory which says consciousness is not universal). I concluded that even if you try to ground your restrictive theory in your own phenomenology (or first hand experience), you still cannot do…
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