philosophy Featured Adding perspective through the competence canvas When looking at your whole set of competencies, it all comes together on a painting that's even more uniquely yours.
philosophy Featured Digital geography Are there different digital geographies that can significantly shape the information, opportunities, and connections you have access to?
philosophy Featured Rethinking Mill's harm clause under Capitalism and AI How should you, as an individual, change your day-to-day economic interactions with others based on the harm clause and their lack of access to basic needs?
philosophy Featured Religion, Politics, and Moral Philosophy Each of us will have our own guides for moral truth: our religion and preachers, our politics and politicians, our favorite philosophy and philosophers, and our own ideas and feelings on what is right and wrong
philosophy Featured Universal Excellence – Pursue excellence in everything you choose to do The gaps in our lives are filled between our current state and our potential.
philosophy Stories are the brain's programming language I think the most important reason for reading fiction is it's one of the best methods available for deliberately updating our own values
philosophy Exploring the morality of actions when removing money's influence Would we morally judge this exact action differently if there was no money involved?
philosophy How we choose: Do we have free will? Our motivations are affected by how dopamine and other neurotransmitters affect our brain, and those, in turn, are affected by our surroundings and previous behavior.
philosophy Are you a different person when you speak a different language? If our thoughts depend on the symbols they manipulate, and those symbols are linguistic in nature, then linguistic richness and poverty would likely imply the same for thought.
philosophy How free am I? Understanding agency and rights Our agency, rights, obligations and prohibitions are contextual to our current situation.
philosophy When we say "Find meaning in life," what do we mean exactly? I think most of our difficulty trying to find meaning in life is a difficulty in finding our top values.
philosophy On feeling strongly about uncertain moral truths After much reading and talking to ethics experts, my conclusion is that we know close to the same as we did when we started 2,500 years ago: very little.
philosophy Featured Being rich and powerful is a bad (modern) life goal The researchers watched the person's behavior without accounting for the choices they had. And you know who has a lot of choices? Powerful people.
philosophy Long-Distance Gardening Like the calories in a diet, every day we consume about 100,000 words with our minds. We ingest the equivalent of a book per day.
philosophy Being happy is a bad (modern) life goal Emotional delusions: Emotions we feel by interacting with modern human-made inventions.
