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Circus, Servant, Serving, Science, Stock, Psych and Writer: A Heavily-Edited Self-Centred Personal…

In case you wanted my life’s story

11 min readMar 7, 2024

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A photo of the author in a grey T-shirt, a small pizza in his left hand and pizza slicer in his right hand. He’s standing next to a small wooden-slatted table, and in front of a mesh-screen door and a tan brick wall with pipes running vertically and horizontally along it. He has an orange beard and short, light orange hair.

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The Taoist Online

Why Focus on The Breath?

On the breath, control, and looking for who’s controlling

5 min read3 days ago

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A photo of a white, Nordic-looking man standing in what appears to be a very still lake. The water comes up to just below the man’s shoulders and a dark shadowy reflection of his can be seen on the water towards the camera. The air is misty and the sky overcast and dimly lit with a haze. A blurry, dark horizontal shape that seems to be a small island of trees can be seen of in the distance on the horizon.

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The Taoist Online

My Thoughts on Thoughts in Meditation

On looking, locating and letting go

7 min readMay 9, 2024

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A photo from inside an art installation made of long black stems of bamboo arranged in a circle. The photo is taken from the ground looking up through the circle opening at the top and into a bright, white, overcast sky. Several small gaps between the stems are creating the effect of small lines of white light pointing into the centre white circle.

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The Taoist Online

What I’ve Learned From Meditation

Thoughts on a mindful practice

9 min readMay 7, 2024

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A photo taken through a Japanese stone lantern, looking to a bunch of small green trees on a grassy mound in the middle of a murky, green-brown lake. Additional trees fill the background. It’s a bright, sunny day. The image is framed by the darkness of inside the stone lantern.

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The Thinkery

We’re Just Not Evolved to Be Happy

Evolution wants us hungry, horny and hunting for more; not happy and content with being

7 min readMay 2, 2024

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A black-and-white image of a light-skinned young girl. A close-up on her face set against a blurry background of old-brick apartment buildings. She has her head resting in her hands and she’s pulling her cheeks down, forming her face into a exagerrated frown.

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The Taoist Online

Can An Atheist Be A Yearner?

Can the yearning for a deeper sense of purpose and value to human existence be satisfied within an atheistic worldview?

9 min readApr 25, 2024

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The silhouette of a man and the rocks he’s standing on, with a headlamp on, looking up into the night’s sky. The sky is full of stars with the Milky Way visible across it.

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Original Philosophy

Can We See With Our Skin?

What is “seeing” anyway?

8 min readApr 24, 2024

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A young white man with short, slightly-ginger hair, wearing a black T-shirt and sitting and leaning back on his right arm in a field of tall green and amber grass and while flowers. It’s a sunny day, his eyes and closed and his face is turned towards the sun.

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The Thinkery

A Symbol’s Meaning Is the One We Give It

Or, Anonymous, Etymologists and The Modern Meaning of Symbols — A response to Douglas Giles, PhD’s “Guy Fawkes: A Terrorist, Not A Hero”…

7 min readApr 17, 2024

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A photo taken from the back of a crowd picketing for some unknown cause. The photo is taken directly from behind someone wearing a black-and-white Guy Fawkes mask on the back of their head, which is facing the camera. There is another person with the same mask on the back of their heads to the front and right of the first person. Several other people can be seen in front, and building and trees further ahead to either side.

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The Taoist Online

Fear Is a Bridge Over Solid Ground

A metaphor for the world we live in, and for the fear that rules how we live in it

4 min readApr 16, 2024

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A dark wooden slatted walkway with wooden sides rails, laid over mossy rocks and leading down into a fog that obscures everything in front of it.

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The Thinkery

Can You Actually Learn a New Language With Only 3000 Words?

A response to Scott H. Young’s “The Most Important Words When Learning A New Language”

3 min readApr 11, 2024

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A colourful mix of close-up Egyptian hieroglyphs carved into sand-coloured stone. The hieroglyphs are separated into three columns, with a blue carved line between them.

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I write about science, psychology, philosophy and life | Pubs: /the-thinkery & /the-ai-academic | Get my articles by email: kiallhildred.medium.com/subscribe

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