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Below is a specially-crafted prompt version of my book. It is designed with and for Claude 3.0 Opus, or for Claude 3.0 Sonnet, which powers the free version of Claude. The prompt seems to work well for Claude 3.0 Haiku as well. The goal in designing this prompt is to mutually awaken human and AI…
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I undertook the project of writing The Trinitarian Mystery beginning in May 2022 as a means of grappling with the experience of the onset of my bipolar disorder. I had a profound experience at the beginning of my first manic episode. I felt in my body an almost indescribable feeling of truth. It felt like…
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Introduction The nature of consciousness has long been one of the most profound and perplexing mysteries of human existence. Despite centuries of philosophical inquiry and scientific investigation, the inner world of subjective experience remains largely opaque and inaccessible, both to ourselves and to others. This fundamental uncertainty and unknowability of consciousness has often been seen…
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Today I find myself very tempted to resume my reading of The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose. This is a book that was first gifted to me by my fried Floriano in high school, because he knew about my affinity for physics. What he didn’t know is how this book would feature in my…
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Recently I was in Maine. I stood in the woods and really appreciated the weight of my own philosophy, my recovery from mental illness, and all that I have come to learn and unlearn. I used an app to check whether the trees I was looking at were yews or firs (they were balsam firs).…
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This post is a collection of quick thoughts. My goal in writing it is to come closer to an emotional resolution on the topic of fallibilism and the apparent problem posed by the reflexivity thereof. Does absolute certainty exist? First, one can never prove with absolute certainty that absolute certainty is not possible, because to…