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On Thomas Nagel, “Ethics” from The Last Word, and Sharon Street, “Does Anything Really Matter or Did We Just Evolve to Think So?" One of the key tensions I fou…

Following up on the previous entry, "Novel Relationship It May Be—Symmetric Or Not." There are indeed some questions left in the previous entry that could have…

On Jesse Prinz, “Morality is a Culturally Conditioned Response,” and Martha Nussbaum, “Judging Other Cultures: The Case of Genital Mutilation. What do you thin…

Following up on my last post on war . Written before Iran declared that American schools are legitimate targets after their university was bombed. Also revisit…

On Descartes from The Science of the Mind, by Owen Flanagan, and The Ontological Problem from Matter and Consciousness, by Paul Churchland. This journal could …

On Minds, Brains, and Programs, by John R. Searle. Unsurprisingly, or as it's destined to be, Searle's argument eventually leads to the "other minds" problem. …

On Computing Machinery and Intelligence, by Alan Turing. Effectively a continuation of my previous posts [ 1 , 2 ]. Within the framework of Turing’s "imitation…

On What is Philosophy, by Monroe C. Beardsley and Elizabeth Lane Beardsley This is the first post of a new series of reading responses. Coincidentally or not, …

On understanding "respect." A few months ago, I briefly mentioned in a post how I understand and practice "respect" as a counterexample to confront the possibi…

On My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? by Laurel Schwulst. Covering websites, metaphors, the meaning of life, cre…

On bruno imbrizi: experiments . The prompt is to reflect on any audio-visual project out there. The 'waves' in the title can stand for many things: physically …

On Functionality, Forget about Functionality , an essay by Marti Manen, commenting on artist Rafaël Rozendaal. yeah totally i know for sure? I found it so very…

Covering performance/identity; self-(de)construction; mental health; near-death/medical experience; AI and ethics; racism; relationships/intimacy; NYU Abu Dhab…

The book has been on my to-read list for centuries. While it matters not to ramble about why I haven't read it until now, it is indeed a timely input for me. A…

What if I never need to justify or explain anything ever again? What would that life be like? It’s such a great question I cannot answer and, to some extent, d…

It seems that I tend to start with apologizing (to myself) and explaining why I haven't been writing for _ amount of time. Let's skip that this time. To provid…

On Passing Stange By Stew We want the song, but we don't wanna BE a song. We want to be loved, but love will never come if we only WANT. We want to stay real, …

It is difficult for me, as well as for many, to distinguish if studying the music before a concert would be conducive to understanding the music or ruin the fi…

Imaginatively kinetic contemporary and urban dance. Above is the byline on Sol Invictus's poster. By all means, there's no way for me to identify what exactly …

Today is the first day of my college life. Maybe it is because I was encouraged to (or actually reminded of) keep journalling yesterday on a seemingly reading …

I like answering questions. Sometimes people who don't know me may assume I am a person of reticence (which is evidently not true in many cases). I would say t…

As I said in the last post, I'm here to fulfill my words. Given that the application season is already over, at least on my side, I suppose posting it here sho…

Although the first tedious post I made here is unlike many of the archived ones, which were basically day-to-day wrap-ups of a period of time and were more of …

On "Work and meaning in the age of AI" by Daniel Susskind, and "The Simple Macroeconomics of AI" by Daron Acemoglu, and Anthropic's research on labor market im…

On Kai Yi Ng, " The Asymmetrical Friend: Evaluating AI in the Dimensions of Friendship " Kai Yi's argument is quite straightforward and clearly written. He beg…

On Proof of an External World, G.E. Moore & Skepticism and Inference to the Best Explanation, Jonathan Vogel. Mostly transcribed from speech. What is the point…

I've never thought that my next journal would be about war. Just like I never thought that I myself would one day experience one. As the situation is still dev…

On AI, authorship, authenticity, attention, and scarcity. Effectively a continuation of my previous posts [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]. Since adopting voice-to-text trans…

On Will to Believe by Williams James, Clifford's moralism, Logical Positivism, and the "other minds" problem. I'm actually in a bit of a rush to write this pos…

On What's All the Fuss About? By John Zerelli. What if "human dignity" has nothing to do with perceived uniqueness? As conversations unfold around so-called AI…

On 读评论答网友疑：关于我特殊的母女关系 - 小红书 . Also on love, obligation, and gratitude. I'm often criticized by many of my friends for lacking a personal perspective or a stron…

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On Seven Digital Deadly Sins . The prompt is: How is user interaction designed to organize the content of the site? How does the interaction make the user a pa…

On Embrace the Remix , a TED talk by Kirby Ferguson. Coincidentally enough, the first time I ever heard of the claim "everything is a remix" was on the course …

This post documents of a couple of conversations between my friends and me. Most of them are translated from Chinese. Some off-topic messages are omitted. The …

The central question I kept circling, both while browsing the examples and while building, was quite simple: what is the purpose of a portfolio? Hiring funnel,…

This post is a mere documentation of a conversation between me and a stranger I met on the internet. All topical messages are included as they were in the chat…

Covering arting, happiness, incomplete empathy, space-time manipulation, human-nature relationship, computer art, and AI. Continuing on this . Happiness, and m…

This post contains my sketch response to the following interview questions posed by Gemini 2.5 Pro after "reading" all of my previous writing on this site. The…

On Norman, “Emotion & Design: Attractive things work better.” Aesthetics vs. function, durability vs. lightness, artistic vs. technical—it's so easy to fall in…

On The Art of Interactive Design, Ch. 1 By all means, this passage intrigued me first by its plain and candid tone and the approach to start with 'trying' to d…

On Eyeo2012 - Casey Reas By all means, what does 'generative' stand for? And what about 'random', 'chaos', 'definitive', 'rules', 'control', 'freedom', 'certai…

Indeed, I experienced a breakdown. And I never expected I would possibly react so drastically. Before starting to describe how it walks through me, the simple …

"No, you can never catch up with him, nor catch music—if you don't face music properly." —— Franz Von Stresemann , In Nodame Cantabile I started to watch the a…

Yesterday night, or technically this morning at about 4 am, I was planning to record the last projected piece for my first cover compilation Picking Up. Unfort…

Haven't been using this notebook (Entenote, back then) to journal for a while (like... it happens to be approximately exactly a year). As I found tonight's tho…