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Philosophy Psychology

why you can never fully know yourself

The self depends on a membrane of belief separating “me” from the world, though almost everything constructing that “me” comes from elsewhere.

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life

my neurological double-tap

Two strokes left me stranded at the edge of the social world, trying to rebuild an adaptive, communicative interface that most others take for granted.

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Science

the conspicuous absence in science

Science has not stopped discovering reality. We have become less capable of surviving what those discoveries imply about ourselves.