Questions
- Free will
- Consciousness
- Meta-ethics
- Ethics
- Existentialism
- Metaphysics
Hi, i'm Varun
a 22 year old whose interests include data science and ML, philosophy, film and television, reading Wikipedia, browsing social media, and playing rocket league.
On Free Will
I've spent a significant amount of my time reading about the free will and moral responsibility debates. My favorite a priori arguments against free will are Galen Strawson's argument of infinite regress and Nietzsche's appeal to the nature of causa sui. I'm also drawn to Derk Pereboom's work -- his hard incompatibilist position and his manipulation arguments.
Amor Fati
Free will not existing isn't necessarily a bad thing. It can lead to more compassion toward others -- and, more importantly, to a love of one's fate.
The hard problem of consciousness
How can a first-person, subjective experience arise from physical matter?
Camus & the absurd
There is no ultimate meaning to any of it. I believe we can still live happily anyway.