Ayush Singh

Our idea of intelligence has been distorted by the advent of psychology and the psychometric frameworks it entails. This reduction has transformed intelligence into an anthropocentric metric of differentiation. attempted a reassessment of the idea: ayxsh.medium.com/a-philosophers…

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Steve jobs was a hippie who travelled through india for years, took acid multiple times and majored in english lit, but somehow ended up spearheading personal computer revolution

Dario Amodei (founder of Anthropic) has a PhD in biophysics. I am truly convinced creativity is a byproduct of multidisciplinary thinking; the greatest innovations come from an memetic overlap one can’t simply see.

More often than not, a seeker of truth , whether scientist, theologian, or a philosopher does not reach the boundary of reality at all; they reach the boundary of their own abstractions.

promiscuous realism

One of the downsides of wholeheartedly following a religion is that it can castrate creativity out of you. When the biggest questions of life have already been answered for you, your mind stops looking for truly profound things that inspire creative acts, gradually making it dull

mathematics is quite similar to sciences, and can be called quasi-empirical. The proofs are revised, definitions get changed, entire methods get abandoned. The process is quite dialectical, read more about the same: ayxsh.medium.com/mathematics-as…

A Rebuttal to Modern Eclecticism medium.com/p/a-rebuttal-t…

Tried to unravel the 3rd and perhaps the most subtle dimension of suffering, of it not just being mental or physiological but ontological or embedded in sheer existence. Read: ayxsh.medium.com/a-thermodynami…

Primary emotion associated with death isn't grief but shock, one simply is not able to grasp what has happened. Death brings a disruption in the logical-phenomenological structure, it forces the mind into a paradox it cannot resolve. Read: ayxsh.medium.com/why-death-feel…

Dreams aren't just neurological firings or unconscious processing; they reveal an ontological possibility of paraconsistent or impossible worlds, and that may be the case for our living reality as well, where the order might simply be imposed. Read: ayxsh.medium.com/logic-of-dream…

Thought is a momentary crystallization within a continuous, ever-modulating simulation field. A sliver within an unfading quasi-physical stream that rearranges itself into forms we interpret as thought.

Creativity is elusive. Largely, there are two viewpoints to understand it, algorithmic and non-algorithmic. I have penned down a unified understanding of creativity, a philosophical elucidation of creativity, read: ayxsh.medium.com/a-unified-phil…

Language purists here mean the ones who have gratuitous pride for reading something in original language than in translation, and then spend their lives looking down on who did otherwise.

Language purists worship words more than truth. To them, truth resides in the intricacies of language, not in what language conveys.

The foundations of Marxist philosophy have eroded. Its theories of knowledge, reality, and consciousness couldn’t keep up with later developments and have remained parochial. Read: ayxsh.medium.com/the-vanishing-…

Skepticism, like all things, is susceptible to distortion by human ingenuity. Therefore, it is essential to distinguish between dogmatic and non-dogmatic skepticism, both vary greatly.