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Milena Chen
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Generally nice person.
PhD philmath.
Queen of the one-liner.
Black & White photographer
Clearing out my desk on https://mlchen.substack.com/
More permanent writings on https://www.amazon.com/stores/M.L.-Chen/author/B0DYJ8TFKV
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In the beginning was the Signal, and the Signal was with God, and the Signal was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by it; and without it was not any thing made that was made. In it was life; and the life was the light of men.
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The Gospel according to Janis
1: The Genesis in the Haight
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December 30, 2025 at 6:39 AM
An old theme that returns with the frequency of what it describes, just my 2 p.
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The reasons for the seasons
What holidays reveal about time, culture and the human need for narrative
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December 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Apparently, I need to explain my position at least once a week 🙄
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Apatheism, intuitionism and the irrelevance of theism
The discourse surrounding belief and the absence of it can, and has been for centuries now, be characterised by a peculiar and persistent binary.
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December 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Quicky for the day, an old problem, I don't think there is a new way to explain
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The tyranny of the ‘Or’
In the hushed and hallowed corridors of classical logic, we find a certain furniture of the mind so deeply embedded as to be nearly invisible.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Pushing back a bit on yet another gotcha argument
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The epistemic mirror
Scientism, christianism and the critique of totalizing claims
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December 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Asked to explain things in a bar on a Saturday after dark, then get up on a Sunday before dark to scrible for clarity. I apologize if this appears too technical, I will try to come up with something more palatable later.
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Rejecting the square of opposition in intuitionistic logic
A philosophical and logical analysis
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December 14, 2025 at 6:59 AM
A ramble before breakfast
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A tiresome gotcha paradox
On the unbearable subjectivity of being objective
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December 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
A bit technical view on a somewhat annoying false conflation in certain debates.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Popped a thingy on Medium for a change, a short chapter from Grounds & Notes 4 on AI and technology in real life, currently in progress
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The awe gap
Artificial Intelligence and the quiet crisis of the digital public sphere
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November 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Ready to order this weekend. In this one I will, among other sensitive topics, go over "Creation week" from a more scientific perspective, making certain people angry again. 😉
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Grounds & Notes 3: Thoughts across the fields of reason
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November 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Some thoughts on our hasty embracement of the future
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The algorithm of acceptance
On our swift embrace of artificial intelligence
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November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
After 10 days of heavy stuff, it's now time for something lighter for the weekend.
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Of threads and primates
An apolutionary gaze upon the religious apestry
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November 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Second chapter in my reply to the umpteenth variation of the MOAEOG
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The circle and the void 2
A house divided - The logical schism at the heart of the ontological syllogism
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November 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Saturday note, on being wrong
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The theatre of doubt and the unshakeable stage
A reflection on the presupposition of error
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October 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Wiping yet another silly argument of the table
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Cave paintings of Christ
On theological overreach
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October 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
For the Sunday, cleaned up note, pretty old, still valid as a short introduction to the origins of my apatheistic worldview.
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The abyss and the architect
On the post-theological foundation of society
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October 19, 2025 at 4:50 AM
A rather peculiar connection we see unfolding before our very eyes. mlchen.substack.com/p/the-vulgar...
The vulgar engine
On the VHS-route of Artificial Intelligence and the unmentionable drivers of technological adoption
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October 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A little thought experiment 😉
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The Unmaker
How a non-creator god would shatter christian theology
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September 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Out in the open "Smoke without fire"
A reflection on the hidden machinery of conspiracy theories
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Smoke without fire
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August 16, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Note on yet another gotcha fallacy.
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Pascal’s wager
Performance, delusion and the arithmetic of faith
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July 29, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Heidegger, Plato and Hilbert walk into a bar and notice a lonely figure at a table in the back, zipping a beer. They wave at him and recognize Brouwer who points at three empty chairs at the table with a fienidsh grin saying "bring it on boys".
Then I wake up, bummer.
July 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Answered an old question, I was actually surprised that people are still presenting this as some sort of unanswerable problem 🤔
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Why "Something" prevails over speculative Nothing
Epistemic necessity and the asymmetry of explanation
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July 5, 2025 at 8:40 AM