CURRENT MISSION

I am trying to find enlightenment and fulfillment in my life through the pursuit of knowledge.

ABOUT ME

Fun, adventurous, contemplative, driven. I am goal oriented. Trying new things and gaining new experiences is the purpose of life.

PHILOSOPHY

I am a rationalist and not an empiricist, though I think empiricism is easier to defend pragmatically. Yet, though it yields immediate results faster, it is weak because there is no long term potential for empiricism. The problem of observing the observer makes all observations fallible. That is not to say that rationalism is not flawed, yet there is something so intrinsically perfect about it, something so intuitive for humans to grasp.

I am an existentialist. Our lives have no set purpose or morals. We are the sole deciders of both of these. In this way, we are perfectly free to choose our own paths and live that life that we decide. We are the masters of our own lives and shape it to what we want.

I am a reductionist. Everything can be reduced to one general theory. Whole distinct fields are actually highly developed studies of the same thing. All humanities reduce to the psychology of the human mind, simply a large collection of particles.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None! But I want to get started.

Interests

Reading, thinking, web surfing, cooking

• humanities
• cooking
• reading
• surfing
• tennis
• table tennis
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Existentialism, Candide, Oresteai, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Crime and Punishment, The Catcher in the Rye, The Fountainhead, Descartes' Meditations.
Movies: I am pretty tasteless as far as films go. Dark Knight, The Joy Luck Club, Memento.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I am not easily impressed by what I do, only others.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you about early-modern philosophy, single molecule biophysics, western ideas, table tennis, rationality.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Canada, United States