One does not need to own a work of art to truly or fully understand or appreciate the deep beauty of its message…
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Transience in Aesthetics
Beauty of form in shape, symmetry, contour, pattern or design is always enhanced, augmented in direct proportion to its transience…
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Shadows
Are shadows merely the poor cousins of reflections ?
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Metrics
The value of science as an open-ended creative enterprise is in its unremitting incompleteness and perennial iterative process of what is ultimately self-discovery…
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Impossible destinations
Honesty with other people can be difficult; honesty with ourselves can prove to be impossible…
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The Problem of Evil
When bad things happen to good people…
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No-one knows how AI works
No one really knows how the most advanced AI algorithms do what they do. I am not sure if this is actually a problem…
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Through the Looking Glass
What if the world is essentially and fundamentally not what it appears to be ?
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On Unity
Self and world are nothing in themselves and it is only in the interactions and creative, fundamentally incomplete interplay that they both gain substance…
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Void
There is so much discussion of mindfulness, what of mind-emptiness ? Lao-Tzu knew the eminent usefulness of that which is not there. Something which is nothing can in fact be absolutely anything…
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Existentialist Angst
To me – there is no meaning but that which we make. The burden of self-determination is not as soothing as faith must be and for this reason, in my agnostic isolation, I can not fully avoid a mild envy at the joys and certainties your faith provides you. Even if I do not share it (faith), I deeply respect it… Sisyphus’ burden is not that of the Believer…
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Rhetorical Poverty
The general rhetorical poverty of online forums and social media may just be something we need to accept; like belching, pimples or flatulence it is an aspect of human being which may have to be considered inevitable…
