As Philip Tetlock has shown in his book Superforecasting, the clearest thinkers tend to be those that draw from multiple disciplines. I call these people dragonfloxes — they can do many things (like a fox) and also see the world in many ways (like dragonflies, which have many eyes).
The purpose of life is right in front of us: It’s to create a reality we want to inhabit — to reach towards the better end of our conscious experience. At each moment, in every second of life, we are given a choice about how we want to conduct ourselv…
Whatever the answer to these questions is, the point is that the social reality — produced at the intersection of an infinite set of conscious experiences — is just as real as the physical reality. And it’s not just a subjective phenomenon, either, which only applies to what you make up in your o…