The soul, armchair philosophers, existentialism, Camus, hypocrisy, evolution, and thought

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Great men often champion the possibility of life emerging out of rocks, while they deny the possibility of a soul emerging out of life.

The armchair philosopher emerges from a wealthy, leisure-full society.

There is no familiarity with the world. This is existentialism.

The only true philosophical question is 'should life be taken seriously or not'. Camus came close to this.

Thought may have originally simulated reality as a 'practice makes perfect' method for animals to confront dangers etc. without prior real-life experience.

Hypocrisy is a necessary evil in the evolution of thought.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.