The entropy of difference provides discrete patterns of information and thought with the energy, complexity and momentum they require to self-propagate.
Is Mathematics Real ?
Does mathematics exist beyond material reality in a world of perfect (Platonic) abstraction ?
Gullibility and Ignorance
With or without reasons, we tend to fly on autopilot and by instinct alone...
Blindspot
Look before you leap...
Untruth
Belief has always been quite easily uncoupled from reality...
Politics
A political stance is really just a way of sharing with the world what you think that people really are...
Freedom of Belief
I think we should practice respect for cultural traditions but not at the cost of recognising that the interpretations and translation of faith and its various assertions of truth exist in an altogether different dimension of belief than does science and the rational analysis of reality...
On Waves and Ideology
Some thoughts which come to my mind in response to the blog post "Waves and ideology" referenced above in creative resonance to the ideas expressed in Dr. Martina Feyzrakhmanova's blog, Thinking Clearly...
The Strangeness of Life
The strangeness of life is so close to us, so intimate that we can not see it nor recognise the novelty and peculiarity of human existence and consciousness for what it is. The strangeness and fragility of this all-too-human world is profound but we have become fundamentally, irreversibly, desensitised to it.
There is more than one Truth
Truth is relative and contingent. In as much as we can ever stake claim on any notional Archimedean external point of rational certitude and observation, Facts are necessary and form the warp and weft upon which Truths may be woven. Political, ideological and falsifiable scientific Truths all possess histories which themselves derive from the Facts of our existence in the world...
“Truth” or Reality ?
Bruce Lee is interesting because, among other things, he saw the ways people bury the creative essence of a good idea in repetition and blind formality. To see things as they really are we perhaps need to see ourselves first, even if that means unravelling the tangles...
