The Partition of the Abyss
Mereological Nihilism of Consciousness
Tag
pessimism
3 texts across all collections.
The Tyranny of the Mirror: Consciousness, Deliberation and the Necessary Suffering of Human Decisions
Conscious deliberation is not the origin of our choices but a late narrator of them; the essay argues that much specifically human suffering comes from consciousness invading the domain of the subconscious, and asks who, after all, decides.
Flesh and Entropy
An essay on consciousness in a universe of entropy: what depression sees, why we refuse Nozick's experience machine, and what art, free science and technology can and cannot do about suffering.
