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You Are A Pattern Matching Agent: explores a vague theory mind centered around pattern matching, and wrestles with some free will issues.
Translating Alien Languages: explores self-reference networks within intensional word definitions, and discovers a potential way to map a large class of languages onto one another, only to find out someone else got there first.
How To Fight Fate: uses coding theory to examine paradoxes of fate and prediction.
More Notes On My Philosophy Of Mind: extends my first post, puts forth a pet theory of emotion that likely isn't even right enough to be wrong.
Meditations On Writing: explores a tenuous metaphor between writing fiction and doing mathematics, comments on questions of justification, consistency & drama.
Where Two-Valued Logic Fears To Tread: argues against binary truth values on propositions, and against the notion that propositions meaningfully reflect the territory.
Anti-Perfect Objects: introduces a neologism, antiperfect/antiperfection to describe a kind of mathematical object.
Another Argument Against Solipsism: argues against good ol' Solipsism, and the look-up table argument. I also elaborate a behavior-centric stance towards consciousness.
Narrative Morality: what if ideas were people too?
Hierarchy of Conventions: what matters when you're pondering social constructions.
Moral Efficacy, Cosmic Cheesecake, and the Epistemic Vacuum: still riffing on Created Already In Motion. Introduces the concept of an epistemic vacuum, but gets distracted talking about meaningness.
Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Funniness:
Vignettes
Motions of Meaningness: a little write-up that tries to point at what eternalism feels like from inside
Correlations
Quotes
Fiction
Aegri Somnia Vana: just a quick 'what-if' metastory I wrote on whim
Interloper: started as a writing exercise, but then it became narratively interesting.
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