Hi, my name is not Rhys Sibyl, but it is the name that I will write under here on Recursive Autocritique.
I have no professional background or training, so you should not expect to find expert opinions on this blog. You will instead read and hopefully enjoy a habitual process of repeating skepticism about my own ideas. Or, in nerd speak, “recursive autocritique.”
Indeed, the star feature of this blog to be the process by which we come to new and more compelling ideas, rather than the ideas themselves. With that said, I am also not as humble or innocent as this intellectually honesty may signal: I strongly believe that only with such a process can one come to the new and more compelling ideas that we desire.
My goal is the ideas. My method is the pursuit. I can pitch you on the ideas, but we can only be guaranteed the pursuit. Let us hope that God or the universe or whatever you may or may not believe smiles upon us in this regard.
My primary intellectual interests include:
Coming to formal—in the logico-mathematical sense—conceptualizations of Mind, a term which I use as a placeholder. I am, at least at the time of this writing, uncommitted to a particular conceptualization of the subject of discussion typically captured in the philosophy of mind, neuroscience, consciousness studies, philosophy of language, epistemology, and so on.
Creating useful formal analytical frameworks for understanding Minds at a higher level of abstraction. Areas of inquiry include economics and its sub-branches of decision theory and game theory, governance, sociology, and so on.
Mostly, but hopefully not exclusively, informal commentary on culture, current events, and the future of our human society. We might call this the “Product of our Minds.”
The development and application of mathematical and technological tools for the prior interests.
Finally, imagine that I finished writing this outside during monsoon season in a bookstore in the tropics.
