Do you work in IT ? Do you feel like an impostor ? You are not alone – 58% of surveyed IT professionals experience this. I assert that the industry is itself responsible for this subjective dissonance and professional disconnect.
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Uncertainty and Continuity
Sequence and consistency are the orbital pivots of logic and truth…
It doesn’t actually matter from within a labyrinth of reflections that all that is being seen is an endless repetition of sameness and continuity: it only takes a pair of mirrors to emulate infinity.
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Is Mathematics Real ?
Does mathematics exist beyond material reality in a world of perfect (Platonic) abstraction ?
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Strange Days – Rewriting the Past
If the past was as open to possibility as the future, the present could still be exactly what it is…
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The Fallacy of Censorship
It is all about a taboo peek-a-boo…
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On Algorithms as against Exceptionalism
Will the enthusiastic cultural and economic act of handing our collective destinies over to an overt and arbitrary algorithmic logic lead to a gradual (or rapid) and self-propagating bias towards “flattening out” of outliers, eccentrics, and authentic innovation ?
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Technology: Singularity and Necessity
If one day we should wake up and find that every single aspect of our lives have become so deeply steeped-in and dependent-upon digital technology that we are irrevocably cast into a secondary or supporting role, should we really be surprised ?
As technologies and hybrid technology-and-human systems continuously insert themselves into our workflows and thought patterns, we become progressively and perhaps irreversibly beholden to them more than they could ever remain subject to us…
We are really not for the most part noticing the depth and extent of the ongoing procedural acquisition of all of our cognitive, interpersonal and administrative (or more broadly speaking – organisational) processes and behavioural patterns by technology…
PTSD and psychological trauma remain empirical facts to be disentangled and negotiated through tactful intervention but the hyper-medicalisation of that knowledge and administrative reach into an individual’s experience foundationally inflates the expected contours and probable expressions of those pathologies.
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Thoughts on Death and Metaphysics
Death must always remain an unreasonable enigma…
