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.

That utilitarianism provides moral truth

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.

That phenomenal consciousness is solely emergent

I neglected the information transfer problem. Epiphenomenalism is unpalatable. Interactive parralelism seems to work, as does idealism.

That everything is necessarily material

Consciousness is necessarily immaterial. Even if all else is matter, a single counterexample is evidently enough to invalidate a proposition.

That many things are hard

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.

That there is such a thing as a justified belief

Extrapolation is circular. Mathematics is meaningless.

That the narrative explanation is coherent

And that it is possible to have no narratives without having a narrative of having no narratives. See above.