I'm Using The Afterlife As A Backdrop

It Is More Parsimonious To Assume That The Sun Goes Around The Earth, That Atoms At The Smallest Scale Operate In Accordance With The Same Rules That Objects At Larger Scales Follow, And That We Perceive What Is Really Out There. All Of These Positions Were Long Defended By Argument From Parsimony, And They Were All Wrong.

I Call Myself A Possibilian: I'm Open To...ideas That We Don't Have Any Way Of Testing Right Now.

We Are Made Up Of An Entire Parliament Of Pieces And Parts And Subsystems. Beyond A Collection Of Local Expert Systems, We Are Collections Of Overlapping, Ceaselessly Reinvented Mechanism, A Group Of Competing Factions. The Conscious Mind Fabricates Stories To Explain The Sometimes Inexplicable Dynamics Of The Subsystem Inside Brain. It Can Be Disquieting To Consider The Extent To Which All Of Our Actions Are Driven By Hardwired Systems Doing What They Do Best While We Overlay Stories About Choices.

Behavior Is The Outcome Of The Battle Among Internal Systems.

Many People Prefer A View Of Human Nature That Includes A True Side And A False Side - In Other Words, Humans Have A Single Genuine Aim And The Rest Is Decoration, Evasion, Or Cover-up. That's Intuitive, But It's Incomplete. A Study Of The Brain Necessitates A More Nuanced View Of Human Nature.