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Optimism, Pessimism, or Realism?

September 10, 2020 Dominic Reichl Leave a Comment

What Happened With cheery eyes I look back at the past, embracing with love that which cannot be undone—in a great amor fati. With lucid eyes I look back at the past, striving for accuracy in my memories, treating them as historical facts that ought to be true, not emotionally valanced. With gloomy eyes I look back at the past, understanding that what I remember is bound to be distorted, bound to diverge from truth. What Will Happen With cheery eyes I look forth into the future, … [Read more...]

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Meta-Hypocrisy Undermines Our Judgment of Hypocrisy

September 2, 2020 Dominic Reichl Leave a Comment

meta-hypocrisy

When I criticize someone for doing something that I would do myself, I am a hypocrite because my criticism typically implies the pretense that I wouldn't. The same glass house logic applies to hypocrisy itself. Unless I have absolute certainty that I would never be hypocritical, which I practically cannot have, I cannot judge anyone of being hypocritical because this would make me meta-hypocritical, that is, hypocritical about my own hypocrisy. … [Read more...]

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True Will Revisited

September 2, 2020 Dominic Reichl Leave a Comment

Objective Perspective Will (volition) denotes unpredictable, endogenous behavior. It is an intricate function of thoughts, desires, and emotions that triggers an action. But thoughts can be inaccurate, desires short-sighted, and emotions maladaptive. Hence the concept of the True Will, which consists of three essential aspects: thinking rationally about oneself and the world around,viewing desires from a long-term perspective, andhaving adaptive emotions. Epistemic rationality … [Read more...]

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Statistics Versus the Individual

July 22, 2020 Dominic Reichl Leave a Comment

The distinction between statistics and the individual is among the most far-reaching concepts of the modern world. We can view everything from science and its philosophy to politics, ethics, and economics in the light of that distinction. Recall that statistics is about averages, trends, and patterns that emerge from large numbers (effects of scale), whereas the individual, though it may appear in a statistic as a data point, escapes most typical methods of quantification. This has … [Read more...]

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The Spectrum of Reality

June 16, 2020 Dominic Reichl 1 Comment

The concept of reality spans a broad spectrum of levels of description. On the one extreme, that of pure quantitativeness, reality may be a mathematical structure such as an intricate quantum graph. On the other extreme, that of pure qualitativeness, reality may be what we experience when we rid ourselves of all conceptual thinking in a state of mindful awareness. Between the extremes, our levels of descriptions have different degrees of conceptuality and objectivity: from philosophical … [Read more...]

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1. Freedom is the degree to which one does one’s True Will.

2. True Will is what one wants to do in a state of mindcoolness.

3. Mindcoolness is the absence of dysfunctional emotions that perturb rational thought and diminish intelligence; more deeply, it is self-knowledge and freedom from egoic identifications.

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