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Our Sensory Bias towards Negative Experience
Negative experiences are more noticeable than positive experiences. Negative impressions are more memorable than positive ones. Our natural bias in attention towards negative change is not fundamentally emotional, but the effect seems to seep into our emotional world because our interpretation of our experiences starts with our biased senses. Continue reading
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Identifying Babylon and The Beast
What kind of cultures could God be so confident about that he was willing to give us a prediction of their rise thousands of years beforehand? Either he plans to meticulously build these evil empires over time (which doesn’t seem like something God would want to do) or they are cultures which inevitably arise over… Continue reading
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Objective Morality Exists
Until recently, no one has ever been able to prove that morality exists objectively and independently of what anyone thinks or believes. Many have concluded (without proof) that morality cannot have an objective foundation. But a new theory of morality has come to the rescue. The Tautological Theory of Morality claims to have grounded morality… Continue reading
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Video: Why is there something rather than nothing? | Existence Solved
Why is there something rather than nothing? This bewildering question has finally been answered without relying on unfounded assumptions. The explanation for existence comes from logic alone. The argument is known as the Tautological Theory of Existence. Continue reading
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I don’t know why the sky is blue
The purpose of this post is to illuminate the difference between simply knowing a fact and really understanding something. Understanding a concept at a deep level is what constitutes real, satisfying knowledge. Continue reading
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Explaining the Existence of the Universe
The question of why the universe exists has been answered in a way that is complete, logical, and in agreement with modern physics. No assumptions were necessary, because the premises of the theory are logical tautologies that are objectively true by their nature. The main ingredients are the tautological definition of existence, the tautological totalitarian… Continue reading
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Mapping Personalities by Spatiotemporal Awareness
The purpose of this post is to try and understand the origin of personalities, starting from some of the most fundamental characteristics of intelligence. We will then use that understanding to map out a range of personalities in a convenient and memorable way, and make connections with other popular models of personality. Continue reading
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Why the Universe Exists, in Short
The following is a true and assumption-free explanation for the existence of the physical universe. It is presented step-by-step for maximum clarity. Can you find a hole in the logic? Continue reading
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A Universe From Logic
Existence seems to be the most obvious observation in the world, but it is also the most difficult fact to explain. Everything around you, everything you see, hear, feel, smell, and taste, even every thought in your mind, is proof that something exists. But how did this physical universe come into existence? The more you… Continue reading
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Existence Solved
Science progresses by asking questions and attempting to answer them. The deepest questions require the most profound answers and have the greatest potential to improve our understanding of the universe. Perhaps the deepest question of all science is the question of existence: why is there something rather than nothing? A correct understanding of existence at… Continue reading
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What is Love?
The purpose of this post is to understand love. I’ll discuss several common ideas about love and try to organize them. Most of all, I want to understand what constitutes “true love,” the kind of love that everyone hopes to achieve, and I hope to prove it, rather than simply speculate. Continue reading
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Intelligence and Spirits
The goal of this essay is to come to an understanding of intelligence and spirit. In this age of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and a deep knowledge of physics that far exceeds what was ever known in the past, I wonder if our knowledge is advanced enough at this point to possibly comprehend what these words… Continue reading
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The Best Economic System
Economics has to do with the allocation of resources in a society. Plenty of economic theories already exist, and the world has already experimented with many different economic systems. The best economic system however, is the one that best incentivizes morality or progression towards morality. Continue reading
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The Equation of Everything
In this and following articles we will describe this mathematically and work out how this foundation of existence leads to the laws of physics that we are more familiar with. This article is necessarily mathematical, but there are a few points that anyone should be able to understand. Continue reading
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A Prepared Constitution
During the formation of any society, a government is created to unify them. Two different wills arise: the Will of the People and the Will of the Government. These wills are variable and can disagree with each other and with morality. In this post, we will determine how to best organize the government so that… Continue reading
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The Purpose of Government
In this article, we will discuss the true meaning and purpose of government. We will try to avoid making assumptions about what type of government is better than another. Instead, we will start with a firm foundation, grounded in truth, and then the optimal form of government should reveal itself. Continue reading
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Causality implies Special Relativity
For many people, this updated view of reality was so strange that it seemed unbelievable and paradoxical. And yet, as I will demonstrate in this post, it comes as a direct result of the fundamental and highly intuitive law of causality. Continue reading
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Faith is not Blind Belief
Faith is a very old concept, one that has been misunderstood by both atheists and religious people for centuries. There are countless writings, discourses, and books about faith. But still, to this day, no one seems to understand it. In fact, most people think it means the opposite of what it actually means. Continue reading
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Understanding the Word of Wisdom
This post is only relevant to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It deals with what I have often considered the most confusing commandment that God has given us. I’m referring to the “Word of Wisdom,” which teaches us what substances we should and should not consume. This is the origin… Continue reading
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Finding Happiness
In this post, we will try to understand the feeling of happiness. We will talk about what it is and how to find it. We will not delve into all the biological mechanisms that are associated with it. Rather, we will focus on the functional aspect of happiness in human behavior and from there deduce… Continue reading
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Strategies of the Fall
In the doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is one of the most important pillars of God’s Plan of Salvation. It was the starting point of mortality for the children of God, the moment when sin, pain, and death became… Continue reading
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The Logic of Morality
In its current state, the morality I have presented is nebulous and difficult to put into practice. It needs a more rigorous foundation, and I will attempt to do that here. Starting with self-evident axioms and clear definitions, we will proceed with logic to demonstrate that objective morality as defined in this theory exists and… Continue reading
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A Pattern of Moral Refinement
All of existence seems to be following a pattern of refinement through natural selection that leads to higher and more complex states of existence. These higher states arise when lower entities cooperate in large numbers, in accordance with laws that emerge from their interactions. The rules that the lower entities follow can be thought of… Continue reading
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The Foundation of Morality
My goal is to put objective morality on a firm foundation. I don’t want to leave any room to doubt its existence. After years of thinking about it, I believe I have finally discovered the foundation I was looking for. In this post, I will take you through the concepts that lead to the existence… Continue reading
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The Origin of Physical Existence
Any explanation for the universe must be a principle or set of principles from which the physical universe must follow logically… We require a complete explanation, one that needs no further explanation and cannot possibly be false. Continue reading
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The Meaning of Existence
Why does something exist rather than nothing? Why does anything exist at all? Before we can answer this question, or any question about existence, it is necessary to think about what the word “exist” means. This crucial step seems to have been overlooked or underestimated by many who have tried to tackle the questions of… Continue reading
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Foundations of Logic and Mathematics
The purpose of this post is to clarify the rigorous foundations of logic and mathematics. Logical tautologies and mathematical theorems are examples of eternal, immutable truths. No power in heaven or earth can negate them. They are rules that transcend time, space, and all of physical existence. Continue reading
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The Existence of God: Part 3
If the evidence I have presented is not enough, or if all the evidence in the world is not enough for you to put your faith in God, then I still have more to say to you. Continue reading
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The Existence of God: Part 2
As I stated in the previous article, there is no way to derive the existence of the God we know from pure abstract logic, and therefore any argument in favor of his existence must rely on evidence gathered from the world we live in. The best evidence consists of recorded interactions between people and deity… Continue reading
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The Existence of God: Part 1
For thousands of years, theists and atheists have argued over the existence of God. It has been one of the most controversial issues in the history of philosophy and science. Over the ages, many so-called proofs and disproofs have been put forward by both sides. But all of them have flaws; not one of them… Continue reading
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