Beyond Certainty
CONVERSATIONS WITH RAÉL & MYLA
The questions that stay with you after the easy answers stop.
Raél Hadley and his sister Myla explore inherited belief, free will, consciousness, identity, love, and mortality through questions, disagreement, and conversation.
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02How Much Did You Choose?
Raél and his sister Myla begin with the beliefs, identities, and assumptions we inherit before we learn to question them.
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03You Didn’t Choose Almost Anything You Believe
How much would your worldview change if you had been born elsewhere? A conversation about the difference between an inherited belief and a false one.
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04You Didn’t Choose to Want What You Want
Choices happen, but what shaped the person choosing? Desire, upbringing, and the limits of self-authorship.
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06What Makes You… You?
A discussion of identity through change, memory, embodiment, and the privacy of conscious experience.
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07If You’re Going to Die Anyway, Why Do Anything?
Why temporary things can matter, and what happens when we ask them to deliver permanence.
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08Do You Need God to Be a Good Person?
A conversation about compassion, moral motivation, and the difference between goodness and fear of punishment.
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09Is AI Actually Thinking, or Just Very Good at Pretending?
Behavior, inner experience, and the difficulty of knowing another mind. A philosophical question about the standards we use to attribute consciousness.
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10Nobody Asks You If You Want to Exist
The impossibility of consent before birth and the responsibility that follows the decision to create a life.
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What Do You Actually Owe Your Parents?
Care as a responsibility rather than a loan, and gratitude as a relationship rather than a debt.