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Introduction to Neuroscience — Issue 1
Hello all, welcome to this new weekly newsletter where I will endeavour to describe and make more accessible neuroscientific and oncological knowledge and findings.
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Welcome to Neuroscience and Oncology with Isaac
Clear perspectives at the frontiers of neuroscience and oncology.
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
Do Only I Exist: Some Not-so-Solipsistic Views
Exploring Husserl and Wittgenstein on solipsism: is reality only mine, or shared through intersubjectivity, language, and experience?
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
A Liberal Case for Natural Law
Is law fundamentally natural or man-made? Are there constraints on possible law beyond whatever governments can enforce with threats of violence? Does rule of law, not men, have any meaning if laws are always enforced and interpreted by men?
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
POEM: What Durkheim Dreams About
“What Durkheim Dreams About” is a poem I wrote while taking a sociology class and having to read excerpts from Durkheim’s Suicide. I disliked his approach to life and wrote this poem inspired by that, as sort of a subversion and way to try to empathize with what he was saying.
Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)
POEM: Five Poems by Sreelekha Chatterjee
My mind experiences an emotional barrenness, resembling an empty terrace. An empty seat is forever there, indicating an absence, perhaps a spiritual emptiness.
Literature & Poetry
POEM: When the Body Breaks
When the Body Breaks” explores physical illness as a spiritual unraveling that nonetheless makes space for reverence. This poem exists in the tension between alienation and awe, asking what it means to carry pain with dignity and whether the soul’s transformations might be holy in their fragility
Philosophy & Ethics
On Beauty
Can we make objective judgments of beauty? Is beauty only in the eye of the beholder? The following essay argues that we can indeed make objective judgments of beauty, although beauty itself is nothing other than a kind of subjective experience of pleasure.
Culture & Identity
Beauty and the Grotesque: How Art Speaks to the Self
Great art can help us experience our most fundamental humanity.
POEM: Five Poems by Sanjeev Sethi
We let no flügelhorn animate the atmosphere.
Our presence drew the stelliferous to a party
of two. In the reign of rhythms, we repeatedly
heard our song; meaningful to us but mute to
the others. That is how strains are or should be.