Writing

You may think that I agree with Socrates, that we need to break the chains that hold us in a false reality in order to discover what’s really real. You are right to think that in the past I have broken my chains, climbed out of the cave, saw the sun, blinding and brilliant, and felt the joy of being liberated from wrong views. But, as…

As we navigate through the world we develop mental models of reality that, among other things: Help us to predict the way that the outside world will behave in response to various actionsShapes how we interpret sensory data we perceive from the outside worldGenerates our conception of self as something separate and distinct from the rest of the world The below diagram from a paper published…

When I tell people that I am going on a motorcycle trip around the U.S., once they get over the conceptual hurdle of someone not spending a majority of their waking life working, it seems to make sense to them. No one has ever asked, “Why?” It seems that they are comfortable ascribing a motivation that makes sense to them. I assume the most common one…