Enlightenment begins where the search for certainty ends.
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enlightenment
Category: Philosophy
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the oldest questions
Life may not need a planet. It may only need matter, persistent gradients of energy, memory, and enough time for (ie self-) organisation to become aware of itself.
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status hierarchy: role-play
Perceived importance is simply the output function of an ongoing game of organisational status hierarchy, social roleplay and meritocratic make-believe.
A system persists not by preserving what it is, but by continually reorganising the probabilities of what it can become.
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system time
Differential timing is the common language of organised systems.
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before continuity
Nothing (and only nothing!) persists by remaining complete. Continuity emerges because every organised system must keep rebuilding the conditions of its own existence.
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bureaucratic entropy
The system’s entropy offset becomes the labour imposed on those required to submit to its assumptions in order to reproduce its organisational structure through time.
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philosophical purpose
The proper purpose of philosophy is the attempt to save humanity from itself
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local logic, global reality
Local truth works. Global closure fails. The difference is reality.
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stop making sense
No finite system of distinctions exhausts the relational continuity from which those distinctions arise. Reality exceeds every local logic.
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language
We do not simply use language. We participate in its continual reconstruction, and through that reconstruction language continually participates in ours.
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independence day
Freedom is easy to celebrate in theory and much harder to preserve in practice.
