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On the Nature of Things — On metaphysics

• [audio] Atavism Isn't the Answer — 7 Feb 2026
  The return-to-nature movement bundles legitimate health concerns with pseudoscience using a single template: identify a modern problem, construct an ancestral narrative, sell the return as the cure. It rests on two contradictory assumptions—that we know what ancestral life was like, and that humans are simultaneously robust and fragile.
• [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