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Peace

Compassion

Life is difficult for everyone, in different ways, at different times. We exist as partially individuated selves, each with a limited point of view, shaped by desire, belief, hope, and fear, often without reflection. Language gives form to this condition, allowing meaning to emerge while also carrying the weight of suffering. To be a self […]

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Psychology

Disentangling Love and Hate

Love is an experience and representation from inner to outer, from system to environment and from self to other. It is that direction and momentum that inversely generates and cultivates the experiencing “I” or loving person in reflexive self-definition through their relationship to that other. Imaginary hypotheses of “other” are metaphysical fictions no less than […]

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Philosophy

Disassembling Sentience: Distributed Multidimensional Computation

If we seek to explain sentience and consciousness we might not be particularly comforted by what we ultimately discover.