Philosophy of Consciousness: Why You Are Not Stronger Than Your Environment

Maarten van Doorn
7 min readMar 30, 2019

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A lot of us overestimate our psychological independence, and I am no exception.

Surely, I can flourish anywhere, can’t I? Making friends is not that hard — and really, how different is the daily grind going to be whether me, my laptop and my brain do their thing in The Netherlands, Budapest, or anywhere else?

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Maarten van Doorn

PhD philosophy. Essays about why we believe what we do, how societies come to a public understanding about truth, and how we might do better (crazy times)