Death is productive in ways that might never be comfortably acknowledged.
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Category: Philosophy
If we seek to explain sentience and consciousness we might not be particularly comforted by what we ultimately discover.
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Gothic Beauty
The enigmas of human psychology and culture are writ large in the domain of Gothic fascination with darkness and death.
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What is Beauty?
True beauty just is, and exists before language, thought and technology.
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Desire and Fear
We are bound by fear to our Objects and fantasies of Other and Self as much as by desire and there is a complex logical undercurrent and rationale to the ways that we (enigmatically) encrypt aversion into attraction and revulsion or death into fertility and life.
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Ouroboros
The logical necessity of recursively enigmatic self-propagation remains mysterious and somehow also essential for life and sentience.
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The Creativity of Cultural Erasure
Every act of creativity and recombinatory cultural reconfiguration is both additive and subtractive – it is an addition of complexity and structure and is simultaneously the systemic logical negation of existing methods and strategies of organisation and thought.
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A Fascination with Broken Things
Broken things and imperfect people are often far more interesting than are complete and whole ones…
We find ourselves endlessly aspiring towards procedurally patterned symmetries of refinement in an iterated and accelerating aspiration towards beauty, knowledge and control.
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Unattainable You
You can not be whole for the same reason you can not control the world – there is at base no controller, knower or self and this is the greatest unacknowledged enigma of our world.
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Rethinking Conflict
Coming conflicts will be won by those who can most effectively, efficiently, continuously and adaptively rebuild themselves and their ways of life through successful negotiation and engagement with the recombinatory logical evolution of information and energy from which biology, humanity, technology and civilisation have emerged.
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Visualising Reality
There is no “best” theory, there are only progressively “better” ones.
Daedelus Kite 