// writings
- What Is This Place?Why this website exists, why it's called Sed Contra, and what to click on.
- Google DeepMind: AI Cannot Produce ConsciousnessA Google DeepMind paper says AI cannot be conscious. Here is where it meets the Aristotelian and Thomistic tradition.
// from the newsletter
- Beyond Self Help & Into the Gospel ↗One of the things I discovered about myself is that my self-talk has consequences outside of me.
- Reading Reality: The First Thing You Ever Knew (Cont.) ↗Garrigou-Lagrange, Reality: A Synthesis of Thomistic Thought. Part One, Chapter 4: Two Errors
- Reading Reality: The First Thing You Ever Knew ↗Garrigou-Lagrange, Reality: A Synthesis of Thomistic Thought. Part One, Chapter 4: Intelligible Being and First Principles.
- I Found Out My Family Wasn't Rich at a Birthday Party ↗I remember being invited to a friends birthday party in elementary school who lived in La Jolla, California.
- Why Evangelical Testimony Culture Can't Let the Old Man Die ↗A Christian social media strategist named Trevor Sheatz posted on X about his wife’s sexual past.
- I Know What Your Purpose is ↗The year is 1877 in a small village called Olgossa in western Sudan.
- Why Every Catholic Should Learn How to Sell ↗Every Catholic should learn how to sell.
- I Have Trust Issues ↗But not with you.
- What Pope Francis Taught Me About Meeting Sinners ↗A personal reflection on his legacy
- What Vatican I Actually Teaches About the Papacy ↗Understanding Papal Minimalism
- On Divorce and Adultery ↗Did Jesus permit divorce if your spouse cheats on you?