If we seek to explain sentience and consciousness we might not be particularly comforted by what we ultimately discover.
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Detecting Deception
In an era of machine learning and artificial intelligence, there may be nowhere that is not unveiled by the light of information and data measurement.
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The Test of Good Government
The true measure of value and of political, organisational and ideological sincerity is the extent of persistent selfless sacrifice and unselfish compassion.
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What if there was nothing…
What if there was nothing at all?
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The Great Unknown
It is only an immature psychological and cultural status which seeks certainty and completion in all things and in so doing, generates endless entropy and confusion. Science has no logical endpoint.
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The Hollow Men
One thing I notice about getting older is the way that things start to get away from you…
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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.
Does social media only really exploit us and invoke reflexive psychological and emotional dependency?
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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.
Daedelus Kite 