2026
12021
2On the Value of Existence and the Experience of Life
Explores the existentialist question of life's meaning and the collapse of assigned value, offering practices for living fully, from ordinariness to connection.
How to Communicate Effectively — Through the Lens of Zhuangzi's Qiwulun
Starting from the problem of standpoints in Zhuangzi's Qiwulun, this essay uses the Ladder of Inference to analyze how attitudes and judgments form in communication, seeking effective consensus.
2020
12019
2How Is Artificial Consciousness Possible?
Drawing on Detroit: Become Human and other sci-fi works, this piece surveys mind-body dualism, behaviorism, physicalism, and functionalism, using the Chinese Room to ask whether artificial consciousness is even theoretically possible.
My Approach to Reading Papers and Writing Essays
Personal reflections on reading academic literature and writing essays, breaking the process into five phases — collection, reading, study, construction, and writing — for readers to reference.