It appears that a degree of ambiguity may be an inverse function of the generalised utility of any concept.
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We are that living matter through which the logic of self-replication self-replicates; we are not the bearers or the beneficiaries of this process, we are the medium through which it (shockwave-like) passes.
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A Self-Extinguishing Flame
It is staggering (and blissfully unacknowledged) the extent to which this world of ours and all of its many anthropomorphic catastrophes are all quite simply occurring within and emanating from these brains between our ears.
Self and subjective psychological depth may be little more than a convenience – a fabrication or persistent fantasy and self-propagating illusion.
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Manufacturing Loneliness
Psychological deficits and emotional asymmetry may the price (or at least – the cost) of social, economic and cultural continuity.
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Is Your Inner Narrative You ?
That little voice inside your head – is that really who you are ? That reflective, incessant narrator of self…
PTSD and psychological trauma remain empirical facts to be disentangled and negotiated through tactful intervention but the hyper-medicalisation of that knowledge and administrative reach into an individual’s experience foundationally inflates the expected contours and probable expressions of those pathologies.
What does an attempt to generate an artificially intelligent Theory of Mind (of the existence of intentions, experiences and inference of probable future actions) in other entities reveal about our own existential circumstances and the fundamental uncertainties of our own experience ?
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Cognitive Unconscious
There is so very much, much more to your mind and brain than you will ever have full control of or even access to…
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Eros and Thanatos
…most of us blunder our way through the world (at least, but not solely – emotionally) from one disaster to another. We seek that Other that is only ever going to be superficially “right” for us because at some deep level of awareness we know that our very essential nature and psychological being requires dissonance and discontinuity to continue to exist…
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Nurturing Creativity
Nurture creativity wherever you find it – in yourself, in others or in the world. It is far too precious to waste…
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Pleasure or Happiness ?
While pleasure may predominantly be all about the possessions, people and experiences we collect and consume, happiness is probably much more about knowing when to let all of this go, of being unattached to things. Pleasure and happiness are not mutually exclusive but there exists a significant difference between them…
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