In the past, I have tried to have some structured conversations with my friends in the guise of a podcast and I realized certain things. One of them is that it is impossible to do that. When you don’t allow some form of rules to govern a conversation, it is…

Over the years, I have had a few unsuccessful attempts at staying on social media. It is definitely luring but there is that addictive aspect to it. Once you start, you get sucked right into it. After all, it is literally engineered to do just that. I guess initially, there…

We are gods, but for the Wisdom. As a child, I used to think of robots as our future companions. In my imagination, their relationship with humanity was that of a friendship. Growing up, I witnessed how our relationship with robots changed over time in pop culture. From a friendly…

Recently, a thought popped into my head which I felt was laying in the basement for quite a while that: how did I get to thinking about all this stuff? And here I’m talking about all the stuff I write about. This “philosophy” or whatever one would call it. I…

A walk into the Mermaid Tavern… Once, a friend of mine was telling me that he’s writing a story about a guy who invents stories about himself because his reality is too boring to make any conversation. And recently, I was thinking that we all might be involved around fiction…

The banter must go on… You know, when you’re having such a good time conversing with someone and you don’t want it stop because why would you? There are these moments of awkward silences between dialogues of the great play of life, when you’re both trying to keep up the…

We are rather ‘dividuals’ than an ‘individual’ I have been thinking about what do we mean when we assign something like free will to an ‘individual’. The concept of the ‘self’ is in question here. What is a ‘self’? Is there a ball of light that we assign ‘self’ to…

We know the beginning, we know the ending, and there’s life in-between. There’s something so particularly appealing about stories. I think we tend to act them out even if we don’t completely know where is it going and what is it about. But, we all kind of act like we’re…

You’re as free to not read this as I’m free to not write it. Why do you think you have free will? Are you free enough to not read this and if you were to stop reading it, do you think you were free to make that decision? Let’s see…