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Where Do Physical Laws Come From? The Question Science Cannot Answer
The deepest question physics cannot answer: Why do physical laws exist at all? Explore the boundary between science and philosophy, discover why the universe is mathematical, and learn to live with radical uncertainty about reality's foundations. Read the full essay on Substack.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Dec 93 min read


The Knowledge Protocol: Challenge-Ready Epistemology for an Age of Uncertainty
The Knowledge Protocol presents a challenge-ready, pluralist meta-framework for trust, justification, and adaptive learning in an era of uncertainty. It operationalizes open justification, adversarial review, and measurable epistemic trust for resilient science, governance, and society.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 223 min read


How Do We Navigate the Future?
How do we navigate the future? This deeply integrative SE Press essay surveys protocols for recursive audit, plural challenge, and adaptive synthesis—inviting all to co-create, revise, and extend the living map of reality and knowledge.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 213 min read


Can We Ever Know it All?
Can we ever know it all? This SE Press bridge essay explores the deep limits facing scientific and universal knowledge, tracing the boundaries, emergent complexity, and humility that shape inquiry. Discover how Scientific Existentialism’s protocols drive progress amid uncertainty and unresolvable mysteries.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 212 min read


Who Decides Amid Radical Uncertainty?
Who decides what is ethical when nothing is certain? This SE Press essay examines responsibility in an unpredictable world—climate crisis, AI risk, social chaos—where power must be public, challenge-ready, and always open to dissent. Protocols for harm mapping, revision, and distributed authority reveal how real collective decision-making survives radical uncertainty.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 203 min read


How Do We Choose Ethically Amid Uncertainty?
SE Press treats ethical choice under uncertainty as a transparent, auditable process—mapping harms, values, probabilities, and dissent; every decision is provisional, versioned, and repaired through public challenge and adaptation.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 133 min read


What Counts as a ‘Big Question’? – Mapping Modern Existential Inquiry
Big Questions—queries addressing existence, truth, meaning, free will, and ethical responsibility—are foundational to existential inquiry, mentoring, and scientific progress.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Jul 273 min read
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