A Snapshot of My Belief Structure

Essay 6: Logic As Subjectivity Funny story, the day before I began writing this iteration of the essay I thought it would be a good idea to “disprove logic” for this essay. I went through the three laws of logic, deductive thinking, and inductive thinking and made the case for how they do not reflect how we process the world. I decided against it in the end because I believe in the usefulness of logic and would not define why the arguments I made were wrong until well into book 3. There is no point in dedicating a whole essay in a book called “A Snapshot of My Belief Structure” to arguments I do not believe the implications of. So instead, I’ll take the time here to highlight what I do believe, that the “logically correct thing to do” as we come to process it is more subjectively motivated than we already believe. This will not be a “values are subjective” argument, that horse has been beaten to death 76 times over by university students who think they are smart, it will instead defi...

Essay 5: Problems Problems , problems , problems . Some refuse to acknowledge them, others can’t stop talking about them. Life can go so amazingly and yet somehow we always find ways to focus on the few things that go wrong. Problems are such a powerful element of our lives that one could argue every action we ever take is motivated by the will to solve one, and honestly, I fully agree with that statement. As I continue to pursue the nature of human experience, the shift from “Why do we act?” to “What are some categories of motivators to act?” will take another step further to “Why specifically do we act in the way that we do?” and “How come our perception of the same situation can be so different from others who are equally involved?”. As problems are arguably the world’s only motivator for specific action , it is an effective starting point in unraveling the rest of what's to come. I will dissect the nature of problems by contextualizing the premise through universals I alre...