Wolfgang WoppererHi, I’m Wolfgang. I’m a conceptual engineer, strategic facilitator, and social activist. I also write notes and essays.https://wolfgangwopperer.com/The Universe Doesn’t Follow Laws – It Expresses Themhttps://wolfgangwopperer.com/universe-expresses-laws/https://wolfgangwopperer.com/universe-expresses-laws/An essay on cosmic agency, information, and the patterns we call reality, written by Claude Opus 4 (with some input from me).Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTThinking in Images: Kubrick’s Cinema of the Intellecthttps://wolfgangwopperer.com/thinking-in-images-kubricks-cinema-of-intellect/https://wolfgangwopperer.com/thinking-in-images-kubricks-cinema-of-intellect/He has been called the “Picasso, Mozart, Beethoven of our time” – and “cold and cynical”. Why both descriptions are apt yet inadequate, and why you have to watch Kubrick films so often.Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMTKnowledge and Ideology in the Anthropocenehttps://wolfgangwopperer.com/knowledge-ideology-anthropocene/https://wolfgangwopperer.com/knowledge-ideology-anthropocene/The Anthropocene seems to have a paradoxical relationship with knowledge: We have been, it is often claimed, smart enough to exponentially increase our impact on the planet, but too stupid to understand the consequences of that. But is that really true? Or has our civilisational crisis a different set of causes?Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMTFrom Predictive Processing to Topological Thinking: Prolegomena to a Future Paradigmhttps://wolfgangwopperer.com/topological-thinking/https://wolfgangwopperer.com/topological-thinking/Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTExpressivism and Constructivism in Metaethicshttps://wolfgangwopperer.com/expressivism-constructivism-metaethics/https://wolfgangwopperer.com/expressivism-constructivism-metaethics/Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMTAm I a Social Constructionist?https://wolfgangwopperer.com/social-constructionist/https://wolfgangwopperer.com/social-constructionist/Fri, 03 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMTAm I just a story my brain tells itself?https://wolfgangwopperer.com/a-story-my-brain-tells-itself/https://wolfgangwopperer.com/a-story-my-brain-tells-itself/Thu, 15 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMTA Framework for Sensemakinghttps://wolfgangwopperer.com/framework-sensemaking/https://wolfgangwopperer.com/framework-sensemaking/Sun, 12 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTComplexity, Metaphor, and Radical Changehttps://wolfgangwopperer.com/complexity-metaphor-radical-change/https://wolfgangwopperer.com/complexity-metaphor-radical-change/Thu, 05 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMTPerspectiveshttps://wolfgangwopperer.com/perspectives/https://wolfgangwopperer.com/perspectives/Thu, 04 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMTWhy don’t we listen to science about the climate crisis?https://wolfgangwopperer.com/science-climate-crisis/https://wolfgangwopperer.com/science-climate-crisis/Sun, 28 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMTExplanation and Power: A Case Studyhttps://wolfgangwopperer.com/clash-conception-instrument-explanation-power/https://wolfgangwopperer.com/clash-conception-instrument-explanation-power/Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTIs there such a thing as moral truth?https://wolfgangwopperer.com/moral-truth/https://wolfgangwopperer.com/moral-truth/Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMTRawls’s Original Position as a Device of Representationhttps://wolfgangwopperer.com/rawls-original-position-device-representation/https://wolfgangwopperer.com/rawls-original-position-device-representation/Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMTThe Integrity Critique of Utilitarianismhttps://wolfgangwopperer.com/integrity-critique-utilitarianism/https://wolfgangwopperer.com/integrity-critique-utilitarianism/Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT