My name is Ryan Autry, and I’m a building-level IT Specialist / Sysadmin for a large Texas school district. One of my favorite pastimes is to figure out why things work, and why things are the way they are, which I suspect is why I took a liking to my profession in the first place.

In my free time I often think about topics not related to my work, including philosophy, theory of mind, programming, physics, and occasionally politics. A little while ago I realized I liked my ideas, and so I decided to write them down. The only problem is that I’ve never been good at journaling, because with nobody to read the words I don’t see much point in putting them down on the page.

To fix this, I've decided to put my thoughts out as essays, publishing them to my site, then crossposting them to a few other places. It's my hope that my ideas have an impact, and if they don't, my hope is that it's due to the ideas being disproven rather than ignored.

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The Fundamentals of Cogitism: Grounding Ethics in the Nature of Consciousness