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So here’s the deal, we’ve been here a while doing great things and…eh things, but there’s always been that trickling or gushing concern about why.
We’re amazing, when you stop to think about it, the things I can think and do are staggering, I’m constantly in awe of the fact that I can wiggle my fingers. But why?
It’s often (and beautifully, seriously, watch that) suggested that it’s the journey and not the destination that’s important, and while I can wholeheartedly agree that this experience is amazing and worthwhile in itself, there are other beings equal in every way to myself whose lives are filled only with pain and hunger. If there is a creature somewhere, lining up dominoes of lives and be-ings, that’s just cruel.
Didn’t find any odd IP’s in the logs, so I’m not sure if you’re subscribed, but there’s been a slew of these “open letters” recently and maybe they work for something.
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Prodigious Savants and their Abilities
Savant syndrome, a condition occurring most often in autistic patients, is a rare disorder where mentally retarded individuals have incredible abilities in isolated fields like memory, mathematics,...
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Why Medicine Again?
Medicine isn’t what it used to be. I’ve talked to alot of physicians, researchers and residents recently and I’m not encouraged by what I’ve heard. What seems to motivate many...
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What of the Soul?
I received a question recently that asked what I thought about the existence of a soul given the relative secularity of most of the content on this site. Soul, Mind, whatever you call it refers...
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Turtles All the Way Up
That pervasive question, “what are we doing here”, or more accurately, “what’s the fucking point” continues to steal away my attention (and sanity). Looking up is one impetus, but more...
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Frozen Worlds: a Time Puzzle
I got a bit giddy when we got to the “Space and Time” portion of my Metaphysics class. Most of my semester was spent deciphering bizarre accounts of matter (where two theories’ definitions...
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Ineffable Understanding
Near-death experiences, hallucinogenic trips, meditation, you’ve probably read about (or felt firsthand) the odd nature of these “out of body” experiences. A philosophically interesting...
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The Neurobiology of Freedom
So, consciousness is accompanied by an experience of freedom, which phenomenologically speaking, does not seem illusory. But, what exactly does that mean about consciousness and our brain? There are...
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Natural Kinds in Chemistry
One of my favorite courses so far was last semester’s “Natural Kinds”. Everything from the unique subject matter to the seminar-like structure made the class a blast, up until the...
