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A dialogue about our knowledge of the past, future, and possible.

Philosophical skepticism is shown to be a broken position, and the psychological malignancies underlying it are delineated.

The author presents a dialogue about the psychological function of scholarly conventions and other pseudo-scholarly colloquia.

The author presents a dialogue about neurosis and mental health.

A dialogue about how to beat depression.

A dialogue about becoming an adult.

A dialogue about the pros and cons of attempts on the part of government to eliminate racism.

A dialogue in which Adam Smith's two contributions to economic thought are stated and explained.

A dialogue about how to make money.

In each episode of Brain Builders, the following happens: a principle of philosophy is stated, a principle of psychology is stated, a principle of economics is stated, a fact about markets or market-trends trends is stated, a medical development is identified, a fact about mental illness is stated, a fact about crime is stated, 10 SAT vocabulary are defined and illustrated, quotations from great authors are stated and translated into Spanish and Russian, and more.

It is made clear what is involved in knowing will happen, what has happened, and what might have happened (but didn't). It is also made clear why the standard skeptical objections to the presumption that we have such knowledge are misconceived.

It is explained how to get over OCD and what role medications, specifically SSRIs (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors), have in the process of getting over OCD.

The author presents a dialogue about how to sell.

Big Tech shadow governments are explained.

When people try to find out what philosophy is about, they turn to academia; and when they look at academic philosophers, the picture of philosophy they get is the exact opposite of the truth. When one looks at the work of almost all, if not all, philosophy professors, one sees people responding in artificial ways to artificial problems; and they see people looking for ways to tear down other people’s attempts to find answers to questions, instead of trying to work with those attempts or, at the very least, coming up with ways of their own of answering those questions.

This work identifies some of the masks worn by the sociopath, when he happens to be employed as a professor.

In each episode of brain builders, the following happens: a principle of philosophy is stated, a principle of psychology is stated, a principle of economics is stated, a fact about market trends is stated, and much more!

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Observations and Aphorisms and learn about sharp and deep observations and aphorisms.

It is proved that time travel is impossible.

"All ravens are black" is logically but not confirmationally equivalent with "all non-black things are non-ravens." But this is impossible, given that logical equivalence guarantees confirmational equivalence. In this paper, this paradox is solved.