# McKeenMind
> McKeenMind explores human agency through essays on work, cognition, economics, technology, philosophy, and the forces that shape how we live.
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Append `.md` to any post or page URL to get the content in Markdown (for example, `/example-post.md`).

## Pages
- [About this site](https://www.mckeenmind.com/about.md) - Everything I write is an exploration of human agency. Whether through thought, movement, work, technology, or civilization, I'm interested in the systems that expand—or diminish—our ability to shape our lives and the world around us. My mission here is to inform you, but also to inspire you to dig…
- [Catalogue](https://www.mckeenmind.com/catalogue.md) - This is the permanent collection: books, guides, templates, software, and other works built to be returned to. While essays explore ideas, the catalogue gathers the tools, references, and longer-form works that grow from them.
- [Essays](https://www.mckeenmind.com/essays.md)
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.mckeenmind.com/privacy-policy.md) - Effective Date: February 17, 2025 McKeen ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website McKeen (the "Website"), owned and operated by Fovere Verba Publishing Inc.,…
- [Terms and Conditions](https://www.mckeenmind.com/terms-and-conditions.md) - Last Updated: February 17, 2025 Welcome to McKeen ("Website"), a blog owned and operated by Fovere Verba Publishing Inc., a federally incorporated Canadian company ("Company"). Our Website is dedicated to discussions on neuroscience, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, philosophy, and relat…
- [The Reading Room](https://www.mckeenmind.com/the-reading-room.md)

## Posts
- [The Rise of our Silent Gods](https://www.mckeenmind.com/the-rise-of-our-silent-gods.md) - "We imagine that our preferences are ours. But is the sunflower’s tilt toward the sun a choice? Or has the light seduced it since seed? So too, we bend toward some inner radiance—or shadow—that calls us. Some to anger. Some to art. Some to needle. Some to prayer."
- [Blurred Minds](https://www.mckeenmind.com/blurred-minds.md) - "Should we consider this spectrum of simulation illusory relative to the experience produced through perception? In other words, to what extent is our subjective reality predicated on our immediate sensory circumstances?"
- [The Balance of Thirst and Quench](https://www.mckeenmind.com/the-balance-of-thirst-and-quench.md) - "Each new day is a new micro spawning from another darkened chasm of horizontality. We rise compulsively each morning ready to do creature things. But what does a creature need to do? What is a creature supposed to do?"
- [To Achieve More, or to Need Less?](https://www.mckeenmind.com/to-achieve-more-or-to-need-less-2.md) - "...this dogged pursuit of material goods is a slippery slope to excess and betrayed expectations; discerning between wants and needs is a daily challenge with decades-long implications."
- [Creating Sky from Earth - Communication, Expression, and the Flow of Thought](https://www.mckeenmind.com/creating-sky-from-earth-communication-expression-and-the-flow-of-thought-2.md) - We stand on the brink of an era where the spinal cord may become redundant, skills could be downloaded, and silent mind-reading might become a reality.
- [The Mind Variations, by Brain](https://www.mckeenmind.com/the-mind-variations-by-brain.md) - Take one grand piano and have Glenn Gould and me each take a turn. The same instrument can in one case reveal a masterpiece, and in another, an objectionable assortment of sounds from a grand piano. The difference lies not in the instrumental constituency but in the patterns provoked by the player.
- [The Process](https://www.mckeenmind.com/coming-soon.md) - A professor once asked me where I thought the most great ideas in history could be found. As if I would know. I blanked. Then, after a pause... Cemeteries, he said. Because thoughts are ephemeral. Like ghosts—insights, intuitions, revelations, subtle observations... emerge, expand, and disappear, o…

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