Thesis on Human Nature
Year: 2025
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This provocative thesis explores the irrational foundations of human cognition and the futility of rational discourse through a set of six interconnected axioms. Positing that humans are inherently irrational creatures incapable of objective statements about reality (Axiom 1), the work anticipates visceral reactions—ranging from offense to primal fight-or-flight responses—that such a claim might provoke (Axiom 2). It then defends the axiom's irrefutability as a priori truth essential for any rational dialogue (Axiom 3), only to dismantle the possibility of such dialogue altogether (Axiom 4). Framing human interaction as an emergent artifact of a chaotic universe (Axiom 5), the thesis concludes that all attempts at the impossible, including philosophical inquiry, are mere random byproducts of determinism (Axiom 6). Humans emerge not as free-willed agents but as automatic machines, devoid of the capacity to distinguish truth from falsehood or to exert meaningful control over their environment beyond the whims of chance. The author acknowledges the inherent paradoxes in this deterministic worldview, mirroring those in its antithesis—that humans possess rationality. Both positions, reliant on unprovable faith, evade empirical measurement, rendering ideological disputes irresolvable. This concise yet incisive treatise challenges readers to confront the absurd machinery of existence, inviting reflection on the boundaries of reason in an unreasoning cosmos.
Author: Intelligence, Superior
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7090227008
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