What persists is neither order nor entropy, but the organised difference through which each continually transforms the conditions of the other.
Category: Philosophy
A civilisation organised around limitless acquisition on a finite planet turns systemic collapse into a KPI.
The self depends on a membrane of belief separating “me” from the world, though almost everything constructing that “me” comes from elsewhere.
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unbalanced: political recursion
Politics is an abstraction that leverages human beings as an extraordinarily effective method of self-propagation.
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outer limits: impredicativity
Every explanation of reality becomes another part of the reality left to explain:
E(R) ∈ R → E(R) ≠ R.
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consciousness and the human world
Symbolic systems presuppose an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system fully accounts for the existence of experience itself.
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why identity is not as simple as A = A
A is A. The interesting question is how it keeps getting away with it.
A movement founded on representing those with the least power increasingly depends upon support from those with the most.
The objective function of civilisation is not wealth, growth or power. It is the continual reproduction of the conditions that make civilisation itself possible.
The result is a civilisation increasingly confronted by novel problems, yet repeatedly encouraged to admire the elegance with which it preserves the assumptions that produced them.
AI accelerates language’s own tendency to reproduce its most probable forms through us.
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question authority
Institutions do not merely preserve knowledge. They determine what knowledge is permitted to become visible.
