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Temporal Cognition: A Hypothesis

On the shoulders of giants “por los siglos de los siglos” The Earth–Sun–Moon system presents observers with a minimal temporal environment: a set of stable but incommensurate cycles whose relative phases continually drift and admit comparison. Human temporal cognition develops in response to this structured signal. The structure of human temporal cognition emerges from the…

The Moral Principle of Action-Motivation

Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative is to act according to that maxim which you can simultaneously will to be a universal law. However, I think that there are no maxims regarding actions alone that may be coherently willed universally, because one can easily contrive a situation where any action is permissible to prevent a greater evil.…

On Abstraction and Analogy

I like to publish my most important ongoing works to this blog so that they may be read in the event of my unexpected death. The foregoing text is one example. In it, I discuss the crucial topics of abstraction and analogy, two mechanisms of mentation and communication so pervasive and critical that it can…