Principle 1. Humans as a group have the capacity to understand how the world works, using their intellect and senses, and tools to enhance both.

I've often heard and read about people despairing at what they experience as the meaninglessness of life. I consider myself lucky never to have gazed into that abyss, but I also consider this to be based on a completely misguided idea of how we might know that purpose.

My world view is based on a number of guiding principles. I will provide some arguments as to why I chose those principles, but I will not provide proof. Each is a theory that I'll assume to be true until it can be falsified, meaning that it can be logically contradicted by an empirical test. When any of my principles is falsified, I'll have to revise my views!

To order my thinking process and posts, I use a number of topics.