A known unknown is something we know we don’t understand, like dark matter, dark energy, consciousness, abiogenesis, or quantum gravity. An unknown unknown is stranger. It’s something that could be true without violating known science, but that we may not even have the right instruments, concepts, perceptual bandwidth, mathematics, or metaphysics to notice. Not necessarily “likely.” But coherent enough that dismissing any of the below possibilities as impossible would be arro

People often try to defeat fear in one dramatic, cinematic moment, because that’s often how it is portrayed in entertainment, in order to maximize dramatic tension and catharsis. That’s not how it works in the real world. And attempts to try, often lead to people burying themselves in their past traumas, obsessively reinforcing maladaptive compulsions, ruminating on past mistakes, leaving them feeling miserable, shameful, guilty, and no closer to actual recovery. As a forensi

The Thought, Feeling, Behavior Triangle, conceptualized by Aaron Beck, creator of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy A Manual for Your Mind - The Mathematics Map The user guide you should’ve gotten at birth You just opened the instruction manual for the most chaotic, brilliant, occasionally unhinged machine you will ever own. Your brain. This is not a sterile document written by a lab-coated neuroscientist who has never cried in a Target parking lot. This is the field notebook of s

There are many important things that science readily admits it doesn't understand, like dark matter, dark energy, consciousness, abiogenesis, or quantum gravity. God and any variation thereof is an unfalsifiable hypothesis. Yes, someday, it could be verified as true, for example, if god, aliens or simulators someday choose to directly reveal themselves. Or alternatively, if adopting one of these beliefs consistently leads to an improbably high success rate in whatever you set