Reality Construction
for Thinking Things
A reflection on how we construct the realities we inhabit — through language, narrative, recursion, and the stories we mistake for truth.
Essential Reading
I Want You to Be a Philosopher
This essay introduces the central premise: that many of the problems we frame as psychological or personal are, at their core, philosophical. Not pathologies, but structural breakdowns in meaning, coherence, or authorship.
Read essayAn Edge Case in Reality Construction
This essay examines the case of Helen Keller to reveal the foundational role of symbolic recursion in the construction of conscious thought. Deprived of sight and sound from infancy, Keller's development shows that reflective cognition does not depend on sensory richness but on the ability to use symbols recursively.
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The Understanding
A proof that everything is a story. A story is any structured narrative used to explain, interpret, or give meaning to reality. It doesn't matter whether it's fiction, religion, science, or your own life — it's all structured in story form.
ReadSensing Then Story
Why every story comes after sensation and why the taste of the apple can never be even remotely described even with an infinite number of descriptive words and phrases. It is always just out of reach and always will be.
ReadThe Two Types of Stories
An exploration of the two fundamental kinds of stories we tell — and why the distinction matters for how we construct reality.
ReadFrom the Start
A concise account of the trajectory from physical matter to human meaning-making. How we all got here.
ReadThe Never-Ending Story
A philosophy for those who have seen through every illusion and are still asking how to live with clarity, coherence, and purpose. When truth fails, when certainty dissolves, when meaning breaks — we are not left with nothing. We are left with the power to author coherent stories from within the system itself.
ReadThe Magic of Words
How language, stories, and myths operate as real-world spells — symbolic structures that shape how we think, feel, and perceive reality. Every phrase we absorb programs our cognition. Myths function as long-term hexes. Belief is installed not by logic but by narrative recursion.
ReadReality Construction for Thinking Things
A challenge to the assumption that reality is something we simply observe or occupy. We actively co-create the worlds we inhabit, both individually and collectively. Nobody constructs reality alone.
ReadThe Keystone Framework
The keystone that holds the entire philosophical architecture together.
ReadSimulation and Execution
A cognitive model of how we operate — simulation followed by execution. Check yourself. Run a diagnostic.
ReadVictim, Villain, Victor
A brief story about the three characters you get to play in this game, this story of life.
ReadNo Machine Wants to Want
AI does not want. We want, and so, we believe that AI must want. This is a flawed narrative that does not recognize substrate-dependent qualia and evolutionary drives.
ReadDomo Arigato, Mr. Roboto
A caution about the tools we build and the stories we tell about them.
ReadRobots, Robots Everywhere
A provocation. Just to get you thinking. Now think!
ReadGod Complex
A thought experiment about the stories we tell about ultimate authority and meaning.
ReadIdea Ownership Illusion
If the title does not convince you, the ideas within might.
ReadThe Farmer's Parable
A parable about the stories we impose on events and the wisdom of withholding judgment.
ReadOnly Thought
A meditation on the nature and limits of thought itself.
ReadIs There a Way Out?
Confronting the question of whether escape from the recursive loop of meaning-making is possible — or desirable.
ReadMy Truth
A personal philosophical statement about truth, meaning, and the construction of reality.
ReadPandora's Box
Please do not read this story.
ReadIt's Your Turn to Roll
Just when you think you've mastered or given up the game of thinking.
ReadMy Totem
Just to get you thinking how much fun it can be to think.
ReadAll We Know
Epistemology made easy. What we can know, how we know it, and why it matters.
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