PhilosophyThe StorytellerIntermediate
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The Architecture of Your Reality

Like Duolingo, but for The Architecture of Your Reality. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

12 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

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Philo the Phoenix
The Architecture of Your Reality
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12
Levels
2
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in The Architecture of Your Reality

  • Identity persists through gradual replacement of parts
  • Narrative identity uses story structures to create a cohesive self
  • The 'Axe' paradox shows identity isn't tied to original matter
  • Redemption sequences reframe negative pasts as necessary growth
  • Spatiotemporal continuity links the old version to the new
  • Teleological thinking aligns the present self with a future purpose
  • Applying the Ship of Theseus paradox to biological identity
  • Mapping the components of Narrative Identity
  • The End of History illusion makes us feel 'finished' today
  • Functionalism defines the self by what it does, not what it's made of
  • We underestimate how much our personality will shift in the future
  • Pattern identity prioritizes information over biological substrate
  • Past change is viewed as significant while future change is minimized
  • Behavioral consistency maintains the self across different mediums
  • Dissonance triggers the realization that a belief is no longer useful
  • Recognizing the End of History illusion in personal growth
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives The Architecture of Your Reality the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

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Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

The Constant Flux of Being

Imagine your life is a book rather than a spreadsheet. What do we call the process where we use story structures to create a cohesive self?

Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.

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Where The Architecture of Your Reality takes you

Bridge the gap between how the world works and how you perceive it. Use the tools of metaphysics and psychology to dismantle your biases and rebuild a more intentional life.

  1. 1

    Navigating Your Internal World

    • The Ship of Theseus in Your Mirror
    • The Map is Not the Territory
  2. 2

    Agency and Meaning in Practice

    • The Architecture of Choice
    • Meaning in a Silent Universe

2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

This course
The Storyteller

The Architecture of Your Reality is taught in the The Storyteller style: every lesson is a story. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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