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'Dopamine' Is an Ontological Dumping Ground
Meaning isn’t a chemical.
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It’s Wrong to Lie to Kids about Santa (He’s Real)
A metaphysics of Santa Claus.
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This Is the End of the World
Everything is slipping away and will never return.
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Why I am Christian again
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The New Renaissance Will Be Techno-Rural
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Semantic Apocalypse Now
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The Spiritual-But-Not-Religious Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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Rocky Is an Illegible Masterpiece
Rocky vs. The Machine.
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AI solves language games, not reality.
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Lame Immortality
Demonic Habits.
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Outer Space Is Down
Where the heavens go when they can’t be up.
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Choosing Penelope
A case for marriage.
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The TV Child
The unique and dangerous structure of minds molded by TV.
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High Agency to Do What?
Seeking agency is a local status trap.
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