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Christmas at the Robinettes' – A VignetteHello, During COVID and isolation, I have been quite lonely, with no real-life people to spend time with. I realized that there are probably a...
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NaNo Results 2020: MoebiusIn November of 2020, I began my fifth NaNoWriMo book, then called MoebiusWar . The goal, as usual, was to write 50,000 words in a month. I wrote...
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Mockery: A Fine Line Between Healing and AbuseHappy Holidays, and welcome to 2021, the Year of Healing (fingers crossed). In the spirit of that optimism, we are going to talk today about an...
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Breaking the StreakThis is my 200th blog post, and the 51st Friday I have posted in a row. I have published a new blog post every Friday during 2020, and one...
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Don't Idolize PeopleSometimes we have the desire to find a person who has profound insight and follow them, listening to their every word like it is holy revelation....
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Vast Minds – A Bizarre Possibility of Physicalist ConsciousnessConsciousness: The Hard Problem Dualism Physicalism Idealism Identifying Consciousness Vast Minds Identity, Self, and Other The...
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Identity, Self, and OtherConsciousness: The Hard Problem Dualism Physicalism Idealism Identifying Consciousness Vast Minds Identity, Self, and Other The...
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Consciousness and the Question of MeaningConsciousness: The Hard Problem Dualism Physicalism Idealism Identifying Consciousness Vast Minds Identity, Self, and Other The...
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Hyperspace and Repeating Time – Worldbuilding MoebiusWarThe book I’m writing for National Novel Writing Month this year is a fantastic space opera. And what is a good space opera without faster than...
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Building a Teenage Fascist Empire – Worldbuilding MoebiusWarAs you probably know, I’m writing a book this month, MoebiusWar . It’s like Star Wars , but with different magic and science. The galaxy...
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NaNoWriMo 2020: MoebiusWarNovember is here once again, and that means it’s time to write another book! National Novel Writing Month is an event where hundreds of thousands...
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This Time It's Not About Politics, It's About Standing Up for What's RightThere are three levels of attitudes toward politics. The first is through the lens of loyalty, of good guys vs bad guys. People who vote for their...
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A Perfectly Rational BeingOver the years, I’ve played with a thought experiment: suppose there were a purely rational being who had no instincts, emotions, or irrational...
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9 Video Games that Changed My LifeStories are one of the most powerful forces in shaping our lives and our societies, and video games, as I have said on many occasions, are the...
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Parable of the Burdened LaborersA number of people gathered before a prophet and said, “Give us tasks, for it is harvest and we wish to do God’s work in the field!” And the...
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The End of IllusionImage found here One of my goals in my pursuits of thought, and indeed one of the goals of philosophy itself, is to pierce...
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What Words Do – Literal Meaning vs Manifest Meaning“Actions speak louder than words,” the saying goes. And it is quite clearly true. If someone says “I love you,” and another person gives you...
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Facts about Morality – How Small can We Make the Is-Ought Gap?Some time ago, we talked about the is-ought gap , the idea that there will always be an unbridgeable logical gap between facts and moral duties....
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God, the Personification of Our Relationship with ExistenceWhen I was growing up, I believed God existed. This God was a superhero, and his powers were to know everything, to manipulate reality with his...
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The Barrier – A Short StoryThis is a work of fiction. Characters, events, locales, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual...
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Of Numbers, Deadlines, and Mental HealthSince the last Friday of December, I have published a new blog post every week without fail. I’ve written about quantum physics, metaphysics,...
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Why Talk So Much about Science on My Sci-Fi YouTube Channel?Two months ago, I started a YouTube channel called “ Into the Vortex. ” The theme is to look at the kinds of ideas that drew me to both physics...
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Our Damaging Narratives of Suffering and PurposeLife comes with many struggles. One of the most powerful methods of coping with struggles we can do nothing about is to tell ourselves a...
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Symbolic CognitionFor years, I’ve been grappling with a question: Why do we expect life to make sense like a story? Why do we try to piece together the events of...
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It's Time for Stories of Redemption and ReconciliationIn the past five years, we’ve had stories of old former heroes who want to live peaceful quiet lives, but are called back into present-day battles...
