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On the Nature of Things — On metaphysics

• [marginalium] Gnosticism in Blood Meridian — 26 Jan 2026
• [article] Gesticism — 26 Jan 2026
  Lots of things are happening, but anything <em>can</em> matter, and whatever gives meaning will eventually demand sacrifice. The agony of attention. I’m not going to spend more time trying to reduce the core idea than that.
• [audio] Stupid Questions: Consciousness — 10 Jan 2026
  The hard problem of consciousness is just a complicated debate with no real outcomes. It’s the behaviour that matters, not whether there’s ineffable qualia behind the curtain.
• [article] Stupid Questions — 1 Jan 2026
  Nature is just nurture over time, and nurture is far more obviously in charge; nothing changes if free will <em>isn’t</em> real; and the same is true of consciousness. They’re just complicated debates with no real outcomes.
• [audio] Stupid Questions: Free Will — 27 Dec 2025
  Nothing changes if free will isn’t real. The world is so intractably complex that it doesn’t matter, and we can shape behaviour either way. Why bother asking?
• [audio] Stupid Questions: Nature/Nurture — 13 Dec 2025
  Nature is just nurture over time, and nurture is far more obviously in charge. The debate is Malcolm Gladwell shit—superficially sexy but practically useless.
• [marginalium] The Practical Inconsequence of the Free Will Debate — 7 Jul 2025
• [marginalium] God without god — 26 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] Nature is Nurture — 18 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] Life’s Ancient Bottleneck — 6 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] AI spiritual bliss attractor state (pdf) — 6 Jun 2025
• [marginalium] Does Testosterone Effect Economic Preferences? — 30 May 2025
• [marginalium] The entangled brain — 30 May 2025
• [marginalium] Eurasian Demonology — 16 May 2025
• [marginalium] Tales Of The Yucca Man — 8 May 2025