A few months ago, I wrote a paper about my personal relationship with creativity and conformity in my lifelong hobby of roller coaster design. Completing the paper reinvigorated my passion for coaster design, which had been waning for some time. In the summer of 2022, I joined the official Discord… Read More »Tracks of Redemption, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the B&M
The Fermi paradox asks why we have yet to identify any evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations despite the overwhelming likelihood that life exists in abundance across the universe. One hypothesis which reconciles this discrepancy is the Great Filter, which posits that intelligent beings are actually a rarity, because the billions-year journey… Read More »Autoextinction
Psychiatry occupies an amorphous place in medicine, somewhere between psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and philosophy. As our scientific understanding of the mind continues to lag behind that of the body, the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness lack the rigor one can expect in other medical disciplines which study various bodily… Read More »A Grand Symptomatic Venn Diagram
There’s a rule fundamental to mathematical logic which states the following: Consider arbitrary statements P and Q which may each be either true or false. Suppose we know that 1) P being true implies that Q must be true, and 2) P is true. We may then conclude that Q… Read More »Axioms, Implications, and Detachment: Can We Really Know Anything?