<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Vamsi Krishna</title><description>Essays on philosophy, consciousness, and the business ecosystem.</description><link>https://vamsikrishna.com/</link><item><title>The Zero-Sum Puzzle: Thought and Kindness</title><link>https://vamsikrishna.com/essays/zero-sum-puzzle-thought-and-kindness/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://vamsikrishna.com/essays/zero-sum-puzzle-thought-and-kindness/</guid><description>If philosophy expands thought to the bounds of the universe, what does that imply about kindness — and the cost of existing?</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Which integral?</title><link>https://vamsikrishna.com/essays/which-integral/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://vamsikrishna.com/essays/which-integral/</guid><description>On discretisation, perceived rank, and whether integrating more dimensions brings us closer to freedom — or traps us in an immortal prison.</description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Doubt and the Will to Exist</title><link>https://vamsikrishna.com/essays/doubt-and-the-will-to-exist/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://vamsikrishna.com/essays/doubt-and-the-will-to-exist/</guid><description>Both paths — consciousness expanding into stasis, or eternal conflict in infinite meta-worlds — lead nowhere good. So what actually fuels the will to keep existing?</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Knowledge Contradiction</title><link>https://vamsikrishna.com/essays/the-knowledge-contradiction/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://vamsikrishna.com/essays/the-knowledge-contradiction/</guid><description>At the singularity of absolute knowledge, thought ceases — existence transcends into non-existence. The imperfection of knowledge is what protects us.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Non-linearity</title><link>https://vamsikrishna.com/essays/non-linearity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://vamsikrishna.com/essays/non-linearity/</guid><description>No single event is responsible for the next state. Understanding this — and the suffering that introduces non-linearity — is one of the purest forms of freedom.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>You? We?</title><link>https://vamsikrishna.com/essays/you-we/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://vamsikrishna.com/essays/you-we/</guid><description>If consciousness is shared beneath our accumulated experiences and memories, could we ultimately be one and the same in some dimension?</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Optimism</title><link>https://vamsikrishna.com/essays/optimism/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://vamsikrishna.com/essays/optimism/</guid><description>Hope is the mother of any quality worth possessing — and optimism is not passive wishfulness but the ignitor of all meaningful achievement.</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>