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+<?php
+$title = "Corrigenda";
+require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/head.php");
+require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/header.php");
+?>
+<p>
+ This document is an attempt to catalogue the mistaken beliefs I have held in the past. Each will include
+ a short description of why the belief is no longer held. Obviously, if you hold one of these beliefs,
+ this will not change it. If you reach out to me via email I'll be happy to talk to you about it, though
+ I think many of these things will be realized in good time either way.
+</p>
+<h3>That utilitarianism provides moral truth</h3>
+<p>
+ I was too concerned with the answer to the question of what is moral to consider that the question itself
+ is absurd on its face.
+</p>
+<h3>That phenomenal consciousness is solely emergent</h3>
+<p>
+ I neglected the information transfer problem. Epiphenomenalism is unpalatable. Interactive parralelism seems
+ to work, as does idealism.
+</p>
+<h3>That everything is necessarily material</h3>
+<p>
+ Consciousness is necessarily immaterial. Even if all else is matter, a single counterexample is evidently enough to
+ invalidate a proposition.
+</p>
+<h3>That many things are hard</h3>
+<p>
+ Nothing I have done thus far has been hard, even when I go about it in the most contrived way possible.
+ I ought not assume that any future endeavour will be prohibitively challenging.
+</p>
+<h3>That there is such a thing as a justified belief</h3>
+<p>
+ Extrapolation is circular. Mathematics is meaningless.
+</p>
+<h3>That the narrative explanation is coherent</h3>
+<p>
+ And that it is possible to have no narratives without having a narrative of having no narratives.
+ See above.
+</p>
+<?php require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/footer.php"); ?>
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?>
<p>
This is the index page for my writing. Each link leads to a different thing that I've written!
- Some of these were written for assignments, and some just because I felt like it.
+ Writing happens to be one of the better ways to express logically structured ideas, and it also
+ happens to be something I find relatively easy. For those reasons, I prefer communicating through
+ the written (or spoken) word than through mathematics or art.
+</p>
+<h2>Essays</h2>
+<p>
+ Moderately structured, opinionated writing. If you're the psychoanalytical type, you may be interested to know
+ that I find it much more fun to deconstruct a question than to construct an answer.
</p>
<ul>
<li><h3><a href="cryptography.php">Cryptography</a> /* Because secret messages are cool */</h3></li>
<li><h3><a href="moralrealism.php">Moral realism</a> /* Because people make a big deal out of murder */</h3></li>
</ul>
+<h2>Manifestos</h2>
+<p>
+ Plural. For future-proofness.
+</p>
+<ul>
+ <li><h3><a href="systemsmanifesto.php">Systems</a> /* A microcosm of reality */</h3></li>
+</ul>
+<h2>Esoterica</h2>
+<p>
+ The fun stuff.
+</p>
+<ul>
+ <li><h3><a href="corrigenda.php">Corrigenda</a> /* Everything I've ever done wrong */</h3></li>
+ <li><h3><a href="epiphenomenalism.php">Epiphenomenalism</a> /* You aren't in control */</h3></li>
+</ul>
<?php require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/footer.php"); ?>