Healing by Thinking.
Thinking by Being.
Re:Mind Studio
is an independent essay studio
dedicated to thinking about
trauma, recovery, humanity, society, technology, and love.
The writings here do not sell comfort.
They offer a language for thinking.
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Does Economics Truly Make Us Rational?
The Sophisticated Illusion of Rationality I find the mathematical models presented by economics to be beautiful. The equations that maximize utility within limited resources appear to be a perfect order that calms the chaos of the world. However, this modeling contains a fatal flaw: it assumes human beings are “calculators devoid of emotion.” Economics teaches…
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The Paradox of the Renaissance: Flowers Bloom in the Eye of the Storm
A Landscape Where the Blueprints Have Burned Away From the perspective of historical modeling, 14th-century Italy stood at the extreme edge of “unpredictability.” Brutal massacres between rival families and endless territorial disputes among city-states defined the era. Based on conventional data, this period should have been a cultural dark age. In a system where the…
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The First Universe Was Mother: The Biological Environmentalism We Forgot
Redefining Environment: Everything That Surrounds Me It seems I have been thinking of the “environment” in far too grand a scale. I once believed that social factors—the education I received or the neighborhood where I grew up—were what primarily shaped me. But from the perspective of a fetus, the environment is much closer and more…
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[Essays in Love #1] Every Choice is Another Name for Loss: Sunk Costs and Human Irrationality
The Ghost of Opportunity Cost, the Shackles of Sunk Cost I strive to be a rational being. From an economic perspective, hesitation before a choice is a rational process of weighing “opportunity costs,” while regret after a choice is an irrational attitude of obsessing over already paid “sunk costs.” In reality, however, I find myself…
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The Deterministic Illusion of the Genome: Why Are We Obsessed with the Blueprint?
A Blueprint Is Not Destiny The claim that all of a living being’s potential is inscribed within the genome is captivating. However, I know better: inferring the entirety of an existence’s life from the genome alone is nearly impossible. No matter how magnificent the genes within a seed may be, the flower will never bloom…