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Absence, Approximation, Alienation

Post author By G
Post date Sep 22, 2025
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The further we push description, the more it drifts from the thing described. What begins as a gesture to bring the world close becomes, over time, a mechanism of distance. The machinery of representation translates immediacy into abstraction, and the cost is intimacy itself. To know through description is also to estrange: the signal replaces […]

Tags absence, alienation, approximation, biology, consciousness, experience, human, identity, logic, mathematics, physics, Psychology, reality, Science

Philosophy

Life as Function of Approximation

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Post date Aug 24, 2021
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Finding ourselves existentially foregrounded as the protagonist in and of all we do, it is almost inevitable that we come to think of ourselves as exceptional or special and in those instances when the healthy doubt of a wise, common or garden-variety insecure intellect dawns upon us, we quite rapidly and gratefully barter our own […]

Tags approximation, average, belief, function, life, median, necessity, statistics

Philosophy

Visualising Reality

There is no “best” theory, there are only progressively “better” ones.

Tags algorithm, algorithmic information theory, approximation, compression, cosmology, cosmos, data, Gödel, incompleteness, information, Kurt Gödel, Philosophy, philosophy of science, recursion, Science, truth, Universe