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Why some of history's sharpest minds have argued that life is worse than we allow ourselves to believe.

Does coming into existence always constitute a harm? A careful examination of the asymmetry argument and its implications.

Is existentialism necessarily about the absurd? Reclaiming Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Camus as thinkers of freedom and commitment.

How the ancient philosophy of Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius holds up under contemporary scrutiny.

Stripping away the cultural ornamentation to find a rigorous philosophy of suffering, impermanence, and the constructed self.

The human brain is built to find patterns. Sometimes it finds them where they are not.

A careful, non-sensationalizing introduction to one of the most misunderstood diagnoses in psychiatry.

Bracket the question of what the objects are. The cultural phenomenon of "disclosure" is independently interesting.

The hard problem is hard precisely because we have no agreed definition of the thing we are trying to explain.

Whether or not we live in a simulation, the fact that we keep asking is itself worth examining.