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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.

Theseus's Ship, Cloning, and the Ambiguity of Identity...

December 6, 2017

Kiran Sampath

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...

Is Life Better than Death?

December 6, 2017

Kiran Sampath

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...

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