Pessimism of Birth by Lucretius
A Human Baby’s like a sailor washed up on a beach By the battering of the surf, naked, lacking the power of speech, Possessing no mean of survival, Continue Reading
Then I will be happy! Fame and being Insulted
I wrote this article about three miscellaneous themes we encounter in life. Namely, goal directed behaviour (then I will be happy), fame and being at the receiving end Continue Reading
The Poem of Eternal Death by Lucretius
Death has no loopholes. All of us must meet it in the end. We go through the same motions in the same old place. No measure Of Continue Reading
On Birth, Death, History and the Restoration to Non-Existence
Just like fire we have our kindling and our extinguishing If you’re looking for hard-hitting contemplations tugging on your sense of impending mortality then you’re in the Continue Reading
La Mettrie’s Machine Man
Just to clarify, We begin with Descartes’ dualistic Cartesian animal-machine idea (which was popular at the time) which viewed all animals, except humanity, as automatons, as complex machines without an immortal Continue Reading
What is the meaning of Life?
Philosophers, scientists and thinkers have for thousands of years pondered the big questions of existence, the biggest one of all being ‘what is the point of life?’ More correctly, it’s Continue Reading
Remembering La Mettrie the philosopher physician
Everyone who studies or has an interest in philosophy has heard of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Voltaire, Nietzsche, Hegel, Marx and modern philosophers too like Daniel Dennet. I like Continue Reading
There’s no such thing as entropy free lunch
What is the difference between a living organism and a chair? Well a chair can maintain its state of equilibrium without the need for any help from its environment. Continue Reading
Relax we’re all going to die…
The biggest curse to befall mankind is the sure and certain knowledge that one day we will all die. This knowing, this understanding can cast a long shadow over a Continue Reading
The Technique of Naturalistic Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a technique used to for many reasons such as to improve mental health and wellbeing and to help one think more clearly. One definition of mindfulness from the Continue Reading