The Examined Life

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🏺 THE EXAMINED LIFE 🏺

"The unexamined life is not worth living." — Socrates (who never had a homepage, his loss)

📜 This Week's Question

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

My answer: Yes, obviously, sound waves are a physical phenomenon independent of perception. But that's not the interesting question. The interesting question is why we find this question interesting. What does our fascination with observer-dependent reality say about how we construct meaning? Now THAT keeps me up at night.

— updated weekly, or whenever I have a thought

📚 Reading List (in progress)

  • Plato's Republic — Re-reading for the 4th time. Different book every time.
  • Meditations — Marcus Aurelius — A Roman emperor's private journal. Hits different.
  • Sophie's World — Yes, it's for teenagers. Yes, it's still great.
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra — I understand about 60% of it. Very confident about that 60%.
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