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Introduction: What if the morals that guide us through life are wrong? They could be bathed in cognitive bias, unseen but misguiding our actions. Here I explore an empirical attempt to reconcile that concern and put it to the test with a few thought experiments. Discussion: Cognitive bias can be a tricky thing that can influence the minds of many. When looking at Nazi Germany, they took great care to raise their youth indoctrinated with their values. If the resulting population was allowed to debate and construct the moral values for the society to be built from, what would it look like? I can imagine we would see great tragedy passed as morally acceptable. Does the amount of debate between these indoctrinated youth matter when their core concepts of reality are warped? And how can any of us tell we do not have similar bias to an unknown evil? There must be some other metric we can use to develop these moral values as a society to avoid personal bias. I suggest we lean on Jeremy Bentha...

If Today Lasted Forever – A Meditation on Eternal Recurrence Introduction:               If you knew this life would repeat itself for eternity, how would you choose to live it? That is, this life as you live it is repeated forever. This is Nietzsche’s thought experiment called an “Eternal Recurrence”. How one interprets this as positive or negative can give insights into your life. What would you change if you knew this life would repeat as you live it forever?   Photo by Steve Johnson: https://www.pexels.com/photo/abstract-colorful-infinity-symbol-on-soft-background-29022331/ Discussion:               Nietzche’s thought experiment around eternal recurrence asks us to picture reliving our life, exactly how you live it now, over and over again. How would this change how you structure your life? And how would you adjust today to get the most of it? He use...

 Abstract: What advantage could their possibly be to making yourself visible to predators at night? A new study showing bugs being trapped by artifical light may provide a mechanism that benefits this adaption. What better way to protect yourself from predators than by making them turn their backs on you? Body: Fireflies are quite beautiful. We have quite a few who fly around my lawn at night, blinking and shining for my enjoyment. But why? Maybe this is one of those thoughts that only come to the most bored of us, but i think I found the answer. Using Darwin's evolution theory and the new findings on how insects react to light i believe we can combine these into a cohesive theory. What better way to prevent yourself from being eaten than by making want to be insect predators turn their backs? So why do insects turn their backs to bright lights? New findings suggest that this is to assist in flight. I think without a scientific degree this makes natural sense, given the brightest l...