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Thought Architecture — On making chaos into meaning
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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. -
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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? -
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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. -
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Mundane Cults
— 29 Nov 2025
We’ve been taught that cults are dark and scary things. But we have been fooled. The cult is a prominent building block of modern community. If you’re not in one, you’re probably doing something wrong. The question is, is the cult you’re in a cult you chose?