This format presents the core version of a theory, complete with its full argumentation, internal justifications, and logical implications. Each text in this category is a central development, often serving as the source for other formats (fable, satire, etc.). The argument is delivered in its most rigorous form—without detours or rhetorical softening—allowing the reader to assess the strength of the proposed thesis on its own terms.
We call justice what our institutions deliver when they convict a guilty party, compensate a victim, and declare a case closed. The word comforts us. It gives the feeling that the world is hanging by a moral thread. Yet if…
A Fundamental Illusion History loves to tell itself as an ascent toward civilization. We repeat that law, morality, and justice have tamed violence and that a global order now protects the weak. This narrative flatters our need for reassurance, but…
What is the difference between dream and reality if we look at it strictly from a biological standpoint and focus on consciousness itself? To sharpen the question even further: for consciousness, do dream and reality travel along two separate routes,…
It’s easy to avoid visible evil. It’s just as easy to reproduce socially approved behaviors, to “do the right thing,” and to rely on established rules. But what we commonly call “morality” might in fact be a well-crafted camouflage —…
Imagine for a moment that you had been given the choice, and the intelligence to make it: to be or not to be? Before you existed, you were nothing – not even a potential observer. You were shielded from consciousness…
Let us begin with this tasty definition of the UN’s activities, as found on Wikipedia: “The organisation’s primary objectives are the maintenance of international peace and security. To achieve them, it promotes human rights, provides humanitarian aid, sustainable development and…
You’ve seen it before on the subway: a commuter, headphones on, whispering to their phone, smiling, pausing in thought, then softly saying, “You’re really helping me.” Who’s on the line? An artificial intelligence. For some, this still seems shocking —…
When you step into a temple or any deeply religious place, the instinct is often to see the people there as virtuous, or at least on their way to virtue. The sacred atmosphere, the codified gestures, the reverent silence… everything…
One of the most dangerous beliefs of the modern world is this: that once enacted, human laws embody justice. This confusion between legality and morality is more than just an intellectual error—it is the symptom of a profound moral pathology.…
At the heart of every human interaction—and, more broadly, at the heart of every act of thinking—there lies a fundamental element that cognitive science, neuroscience, and classical psychology have barely named. This element is neither a thought, nor a mere…