Joy in the merely real

Alas for those who turn their eyes from zebras and dream of dragons! If we cannot learn to take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.

—A Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation

A phenomenon shouldn't have to be unknowable or irreducible in order to be worth taking joy in, because nothing is inherently mysterious. Any mysterious inexplicability that we percieve is only an artifact of our own ignorance. The "merely real" is all we can ever have.

Blog posts

• Explaining vs. Explaining Away
• Joy in the Merely Real
• Bind Yourself to Reality
• If You Demand Magic, Magic Won't Help

See also

• Fun theory
• Hollywood rationality
• Magic
• Reality is normal, Egan's law

External links

• Greedy reductionism - A concept introduced by Daniel Dennett for the activity of "explaining away".