Welcome to Vatsal’s Newsletter
Where does morality come from? Can AI understand the world like we do? Do we have free will? Each week I share an essay or conversation exploring these and other big questions through a fresh, original lens.
About Me
I’m Vatsal, a philosopher and entrepreneur. I’m interested in improving our relationship with knowledge and experience.
Writing philosophical essays at Vatsal’s Newsletter
Hosting conversations with leading minds on Vatsal’s Podcast
Building the world’s largest repository of free, multilingual textbooks at Universal Open Textbook Initiative
Creating a new way to track and visualize cultural experiences with Aesthete (iPhone app)
About Vatsal’s Newsletter
One of my life’s missions is to ground ethics in a naturalistic foundation—to show that questions of right and wrong can be answered through the same methods we use to understand the physical world.
I’m also interested in the nature of understanding itself: how we know what we know, how intelligence emerges, and how truth is distinguished from falsehood.
I started this newsletter to expand on and publicize the ideas in these areas that I first outlined in a short book, Freedom and Morality.
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