Excuses for why I haven’t finished the Power of Babel
The Power of Babel is a 2001 book by John McWhorter that I'm still reading after 3 weeks.It's filled with so many examples and comparisons I couldn't help but get…
“Don’t forget”, I said
When I was six I thought my memory was eternal and that I could not possibly forget anything as long as I tried. It's been decades now, and I still…
Incredibly well-written: Reset (2022) Chinese Drama Review
She's really pretty, isn't she? (Forgive my crudeness, it's been on my mind since I started watching this show and I really wanted to say it at some point.)I recently…
Technology is a miracle most people don’t appreciate
A rant about how ignorant people who don't understand how difficult things work assume they run on magic and supernatural make-believe. As technology advances, the sheer number of things that…
The frustrating online interlocutors
This will just be an off the cuff post (mostly rambling). I'm filing these under a new category "Rants" to separate them from the rest of my content. The otherwise…
On Armchair Philosophy
Confirmation bias is the fastest research method To start off, I am not referring to the formal definitions found on Wikipedia or SEP's Naturalism in Epistemology article (although knowing them…
On whether to disable comments
July 2022 Update: After reading more blogs, I've come to find that enabling comments is actually unnecessary. I don't have time to moderate anyway, so I like keeping things like…
Behaviourism is just a mental correlational model of the world
The mind alone is more than sufficient to explain all the phenomena observed by Behaviourism.Behaviourism is superficial, superfluous, and unnecessary. Simply put, creatures do not operate without a mind, which…
The story of the person behind me
Using my mind to control reality When I was six, I had many peculiar beliefs, both about myself and others. One of them was a belief that I could control…
The blog is ready
That was one hell of a journey. My initial (outdated) post can be found here Many things have changed since then. I now have a dedicated email address (feedback@sandboxthoughts.com) for…