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I am a software developer and content creator based in India.
Recent Posts
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Interfacing
It is in my nature as a human to do things. After all, we are all bound to roll boulders up the hill only for them to fall down again. In my life up until now, I have found meaning - or at-least tried to - via things like learning, connecting, understanding, etc. But more often than not, I find my time and effort and attention being involuntarily spent on things that are entirely meaningless to me on a personal level. Still, I have to drudge on forwards in those endeavours because if I don’t things will get much harder for me. It is because of this disconnect between what I want to do and what I actually have to do,...
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Meaning
There used to be a time in my life when I was very much into the idea of figuring out the meaning of my life. Here is an attempt I made at deriving the meaning of my life using logic and first principles: I have experienced my external reality to be consistent in nature, which means that I can essentially assume it to be objectively real. Absolute truth does not exist, but I can employ my human intellect to work towards trying to understand facets of existence more deeply. I am a consciousness in an organic body, with a load of accumulated and built in baggage, living in a state of deep connection with others. Existence has no inherent meaning, as...
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Religion
"The search for truth is more precious than its possession." – Albert Einstein. I feel like I should declare at the outset that I am an atheist. I do not believe in anything that cannot be justified by hard evidence; this rules out almost everything that is considered spiritual or supernatural. According to me, there is no real truth value in any religion's claims about our physical, material world. The scientific method is the best and only tool that we can use to figure out objective truths about our universe. Thanks to science, we can communicate at the speed of light, treat illnesses that used to kill millions, or even send a probe to one of Jupiter's moon. It is absolutely...