# platos (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover platos. Page: Feed: --- ## [A Notebook to Reverse Brain Rot](https://parknotes.substack.com/p/a-notebook-to-reverse-brain-rot) _2026-08-14 · Parker Settecase · Parker's Ponderings_ On The Nature of Brain Rot and How to Keep a Personal Dictionary ## [Journal Like a Philosopher: An In-Depth Video Look at My Forthcoming Book](https://parknotes.substack.com/p/journal-like-a-philosopher-an-in) _2026-08-08 · Parker Settecase · Parker's Ponderings_ I wrote my first book! ## [My Thoughts on Spider-Man: Brand New Day](https://parknotes.substack.com/p/my-thoughts-on-spider-man-brand-new) _2026-08-04 · Parker Settecase · Parker's Ponderings_ The Movie is Fantastic ## [The End of the Meaning Crisis](https://parknotes.substack.com/p/the-end-of-the-meaning-crisis) _2026-07-24 · Parker Settecase · Parker's Ponderings_ A conversation with Paul Anleitner ## [Defense Against The Dark Arts: The Philosophy of Wizards](https://parknotes.substack.com/p/defense-against-the-dark-arts-the) _2026-07-21 · Parker Settecase · Parker's Ponderings_ The Books I'd Use for Teaching A Course On The Philosophy of Wizards ## [My Thoughts on Nolan's Odyssey](https://parknotes.substack.com/p/my-thoughts-on-nolans-odyssey) _2026-07-19 · Parker Settecase · Parker's Ponderings_ I saw The Odyssey late last night. ## [Philosophical Book Club Update - July 2026](https://parknotes.substack.com/p/philosophical-book-club-update-july) _2026-07-16 · Parker Settecase · Parker's Ponderings_ Our Next Reads ## [Was C.S. Lewis a Good Science Fiction Author?](https://parknotes.substack.com/p/was-cs-lewis-a-good-science-fiction) _2026-07-07 · Parker Settecase · Parker's Ponderings_ It Depends... ## [Good Thinking Isn't Efficient](https://parknotes.substack.com/p/good-thinking-isnt-efficient) _2026-07-03 · Parker Settecase · Parker's Ponderings_ Something of a Screed ## [Perelandra: A Philosophical & Theological Companion](https://parknotes.substack.com/p/perelandra-a-philosophical-and-theological) _2026-07-01 · Parker Settecase · Parker's Ponderings_ An Essay and Video to Help You Understand C.S. Lewis's Protreptic Science Fiction Story ## [Crush Every Threat in Real Time (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/w9f2zgN7HUAI) _2026-07-01 · **Sponsored**_ One agent for real-time detection, exposure tracking, and active defense. ## [All is Decoration of the Self](https://leroy.works/articles/all-is-decoration-of-the-self/) _2026-02-28 · Leroy Works_ This article is also on my substack. ## [Talking About Good is Difficult](https://leroy.works/articles/talking-about-good-is-difficult/) _2026-02-18 · Leroy Works_ This article is a sequel to my plain word explanation of the shadows in the Plato's allegory of the cave. ## [Hunger is Shadow](https://leroy.works/articles/hunger-is-shadow/) _2026-02-13 · Leroy Works_ This is my third attempt to put this argument into plain words. You can read the first here and second here. ## [I Was 30 Before I Ever Spent Time Alone](https://leroy.works/articles/i-was-30-before-i-spent-time-alone/) _2026-01-30 · Leroy Works_ I've also posted this article on my substack. ## [Why I Stopped Reading Fiction and How I Found It Again](https://leroy.works/articles/why-i-stopped-reading-fiction-and-how-i-found-it-again/) _2026-01-16 · Leroy Works_ For some reason that I don't understand I've always been searching for something. This need to search has always been present within me but I can't quite put into words what it is that I'm searching for, whether I will ever find it, or if the search will ever finish. Well, I can always find words to describe it but they do a poor job and never capture the depth of what I want to find, if it's even… ## [The Golden Rule of Driving](https://leroy.works/articles/the-golden-rule-of-driving/) _2025-12-30 · Leroy Works_ Many people I've met seem to believe that daily traffic would be easier to handle if other people just did \_this\_ -- if other drivers just zipper merge, if other drivers just speed up, if other drivers just get over, if other drivers just slow down, if only other drivers \_just let me in!\_ then this traffic would go away. ## [Write the Instruction Manual for Your Body](https://leroy.works/articles/write-the-instruction-manual-for-your-body/) _2025-06-15 · Leroy Works_ No body has an instruction manual and nobody was born with one either. As I've gotten older I've come to realize that there's a fundamental level of maintenance that's required to keep our bodies, including our minds, regulated and running properly. I wish I had known about my body's idiosyncrasies a lot earlier as knowing them would have saved me a lot of pain and trouble. ## [Thoughts are Physical](https://leroy.works/articles/thoughts-are-physical/) _2025-03-13 · Leroy Works_ Thoughts must be physical because our brains are physical. If the brain is what produces thoughts, and our brain is physical, then thoughts must be the orchestration of the physical symphony of chemicals rushing, receptors activating, and neurons firing. Knowing that thoughts are physical tells us that thoughts must operate under the same law of cause and effect that governs our bodies. Because…