Which Objectivity Are We Talking About?4/19/2026On 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…
The Ontology Matters, Relationship or Not4/16/2026Following 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…
To Be Objectively Less Relative: No View From Nowhere4/12/2026On Jesse Prinz, “Morality is a Culturally Conditioned Response,” and Martha Nussbaum, “Judging Other Cultures: The Case of Genital Mutilation. What do you thin…
The Burning Conditions: On What I Can No Longer Deny3/29/2026Following up on my last post on war . Written before Iran declared that American schools are legitimate targets after their university was bombed. Also revisit…
Tennis, Buddhism, and Acting: Toward a Pragmatic Non-Dualism2/17/2026On Descartes from The Science of the Mind, by Owen Flanagan, and The Ontological Problem from Matter and Consciousness, by Paul Churchland. This journal could …
Open The Understanding Club2/8/2026On 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. …
We Need Turing's Test v2.0: Don't Play Ostrich2/1/2026On Computing Machinery and Intelligence, by Alan Turing. Effectively a continuation of my previous posts [ 1 , 2 ]. Within the framework of Turing’s "imitation…
General and/or Fundamental1/22/2026On 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, …
Do You Respect EVERYTHING? A Spectrum of Respect12/24/2025On 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…
Websites as Metaphors: Hang In There As a Directionless Spaceship11/20/2025On 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…
Waves, Waves, Waves11/3/2025On 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 …
Did You Forget About Functionality? 10/2/2025On 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…
My Real Abu Dhabi?9/8/2025Covering performance/identity; self-(de)construction; mental health; near-death/medical experience; AI and ethics; racism; relationships/intimacy; NYU Abu Dhab…
A Prophet: On Amusing Ourselves To Death Pt. 1.18/27/2025The 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…
Prague 13.5/12: Becoming6/1/2025What 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…
Prague 2.5/12: Dare I Define Art5/21/2025It 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…
There's Something Beyond The Real 11/19/2024On 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, …
A Peek Into The Dream Kingdom—On Gaye Su Akyol Performance10/1/2024It 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…
Sensation Seized My Sound & On Sol Invictus By Herve Koubi9/10/2024Imaginatively 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 …
Mixing Engineer—A Conductor Behind the Curtain?8/26/2024Today 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 …
Question Box: 2024.1-2024.23/15/2024I 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…
Comman App Personal Statement: A Comparison2/13/2024As 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…
"Distance"1/29/2024Although 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 …
Find Rituals When It Allows4/17/2026On "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…
Novel Relationship It May Be—Symmetric Or Not4/15/2026On 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…
Deeply Skeptic & The Simpler the More Complex?4/3/2026On 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…
On War: Chance and My Utmost FOMO3/12/2026I'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…
Use Always My Em-Dash: From Normative to Positive Reality2/11/2026On AI, authorship, authenticity, attention, and scarcity. Effectively a continuation of my previous posts [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]. Since adopting voice-to-text trans…
Passional Logic: The Meaningful Meaninglessness2/7/2026On 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…
AI & Humen Dignity: Arrogance, Nervousness, and Loneliness1/29/2026On 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…
Problem or Paradox? Love and Diluted Voice1/9/2026On 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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How Am I a Judge?11/10/2025On 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…
Everything Is a Remix...?10/22/2025On 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 …
Correspondence On "My Real Abu Dhabi?"9/28/2025This 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 …
Short Reflection On Buidling a Portfolio Site8/28/2025The 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,…
"Why Do You Want to Resist Deleuze?" - A Subjective Thought Archaeology7/25/2025This 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…
Prague 7.5/12: Glad To Be Overwhelmed And Disturbed?5/26/2025Covering arting, happiness, incomplete empathy, space-time manipulation, human-nature relationship, computer art, and AI. Continuing on this . Happiness, and m…
Sketch Responses to Gemini: On Some of My Past and Present Selves5/1/2025This 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…
It's All About The Balance—Right?10/27/2024On Norman, “Emotion & Design: Attractive things work better.” Aesthetics vs. function, durability vs. lightness, artistic vs. technical—it's so easy to fall in…
On Attempting to Define Interactivity9/14/2024On 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…
Randomness and Control on Generative Arts and Beyond9/8/2024On Eyeo2012 - Casey Reas By all means, what does 'generative' stand for? And what about 'random', 'chaos', 'definitive', 'rules', 'control', 'freedom', 'certai…
Trough But Enough4/4/2024Indeed, 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 …
Nodame et Chiaki2/15/2024"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…
Picking Up2/4/2024Yesterday 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…
Continuity & Uniqueness12/12/2023Haven'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…