Technology keeps solving the problems technology creates, tightening our dependence on machinery whose cumulative costs keep growing and from which there is no longer any clean exit.
Category: Philosophy
When religious language does more work for political identity than religious ethics do for moral conduct, God becomes useful in ways we should all probably question.
Heaven is not somewhere beyond the world; if it can be said to exist at all, it must be found within the inexhaustibly complex structure already here.
Peace is not merely difficult. We have built institutions, identities, economies and languages whose coherence depends upon the persistence of conflict.
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Belief as Harmonic Structure
Belief is harmonic structure: the recurrent pattern of timing, relation and probability through which language, meaning and experience take form.
A civilisation builds systems to solve its problems, then discovers that the systems have become the problems, while its dependence upon them has made their continuity deeply problematic.
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Persistence of Reality
Reality persists because nothing (and only nothing!) ever fully coincides with itself.
The machinery does not need to fail. It only needs to keep working in ways that make more of itself necessary.
Knowledge takes form at the boundary between what can be articulated and what cannot yet, or perhaps cannot ever, be fully known. Hubris remains evanescent.
Meaning repeats because recurrence builds structure, and structure influences what follows. History rhymes for much the same reason.
The probable is a proper subset of the possible. Old habits die hard because viable communication preferentially reproduces patterns that make themselves more likely to recur.
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