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The Reexamined Life
Think, Inquire, Question
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Redefining and Resolving
My name is Kiran Sampath (or so I have been told because can I ever really know anything?). My purpose is to attempt: to attempt to define for myself that which cannot be defined. I will answer (or attempt to) humanity's most ambiguous and open ended questions. In doing so, I hope to bring sense to the most complex dilemmas of your existence while also defining myself as a human being, a philosopher, and an independent thinker.
January 18, 2019
Why do you think what you think? How do you justify what you know? Are your strongest opinions grounded in truth? Or are you really just a malleable sponge floating in the sea space-time, shaped by the local water?
ASK YO $ELF
If I were a different race would my opinion...
November 23, 2018
David Hume treats “the self” as fiction; he threatens the commonly held belief that an enduring self exists by claiming that personal identity is a misleading construct. Because our existence is merely our sensory perceptions at any given point in time when we do not p...
December 6, 2017
What makes you you?
Is it biology? The ephemeral particles that you are made up of? An instinctive drive embedded in human nature? The fruits of evolution drawing illusions of freewill?
Is it anatomy? The current of billions of neurons and cells rippling into e...
December 6, 2017
Since 10:15 am last Wednesday, the words have echoed repeatedly in my mind, reminding me, again and again, of my relative insignificance and the futility of life. If a banana is an antidepressant, then Hamlet is inedible.
"To be, or not to be--that is the question...
October 25, 2017
What kind of sign God would have to send in order for you to believe there was a God?
I believe in God. Not because I particularly think there is a physical God standing above the Earth watching it, or because I think God molded humans in a way contradictory to evolutio...
September 9, 2017
It has been declared as one of many skeptic arguments that our existence in this universe and in our lives is simply an illusion; we could potentially be living in a Matrix, a brain-in-a-vat, or simply be dreaming now in a realm of alternative or “unreal” reality. Per...
September 9, 2017
The following expresses my opinion on a highly considered medical and ethical dilemma. Should people be allowed to buy and sell kidneys?
Currently in the world an abundance of people are on the waiting list, in need of kidney transplants, yet many people are unintereste...
September 9, 2017
In Nagel’s article, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat,” he essentially argues that some experiences are subjective beyond understanding. As human beings, we have a tendency to reduce the experiences of other species or other beings and conform them into our own mental perce...
July 3, 2017
Dilemma from anonymous:
"As human being is our fate predestined or do we make choices and employ free will"
Our fundamental value of liberty would be wasted if the very existence of free will is illusory. Moral liberty takes root upon the premise that each individual ch...
June 5, 2017
My Truth
The concept of "objectivity" relies on the existence of "Universal Truth," and truth is the basis of Philosophy.
Yet, is the Truth dependent upon conformity to facts, or is one's truth a fluid reflection of their mortal psyche?
By virtue of our individualit...
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