🧐 philosophy
Last tended to on May 18, 2022
The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term.
– Wilfrid Sellars, “Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man”
Some things we can think about in a philosophical lens…
Do we have free will / agency? Are we just subservient to a deterministic universe? Or both??
Image: Gosper glider gun in conway’s game of life :-)
- How does the mind work? What do our mental representations of the outside world look like?
- mind-body
- science
- life philosophy
Links to “🧐 philosophy”
notes I’m actively working on
Mentally bookmarking these pages – think there is some interesting “sauce” to be gotten from each of these.
notes I’m actively working on (hah, recursive)
code comments
📚 book notes
🔲 Conway’s Game of Life
🧐 philosophy
rules of thumb
decomposition
Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) works well for code, not people.
blog posts
🟪🟦🟩 Life is a Picture, But You Live in a Pixel — Wait But Why
life philosophy
Thinking about the philosophy of how we should live our lives.
Some guiding principles:
- simplicity
- joy
- truly ’following my nose’ / letting bottom-up curiosity take me places
- focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of
active/outward kindess
hmm ok i think this is related to modern wisdom