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More Links For February 2014
Scott Alexander presents a diverse collection of interesting links on topics ranging from meditation to global poverty, offering brief summaries and personal commentary.
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meditation
Essays tagged “meditation”. Follow an idea across the archive.
Essays on meditation
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Moments Of Awakening
Scott Alexander discusses how the clarity experienced when awakening from meditation-induced delusions mirrors his appreciation for simplifying philosophical concepts.
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Raikoth: Laws, Language, and Society
Scott Alexander presents Raikoth, his fictional utopian society, which strives for perfection in language, government, and population through unique systems and practices.
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Virtue Ethics: Not Practically Useful, Either
Scott Alexander argues that virtue ethics is neither how people naturally think about morality nor an effective way to make people more moral, proposing alternative methods and using a grammar analogy to illustrate his point.
11 min read 1,674 words
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Good vibrations and subjective temporal granularity
Scott Alexander explores subjective temporal granularity, its relation to meditation, and how it might allow for intervening in thought construction.
7 min read 1,018 words
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Crowley on Religious Experience
Scott presents Aleister Crowley's rationalist approach to mysticism and religious experience, arguing that Crowley's empirically-focused system for achieving enlightenment offers valuable insights that both religious and rationalist perspectives typically miss.
6 min read 881 words