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 […]
In a holistic system, every reference is internal. Nothing outside the system provides direction or meaning. Order emerges because each component must stabilise itself through relations that close back into the whole. The universe maintains coherence by reorganising its own activity; consciousness constructs a world by interpreting the patterns it generates. Both are self-contained structures […]
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 […]
Holism is a wonderful word because it resists the temptation to treat language as closed self-reflection. Meaning does not reside in solitary fragments but arises through the whole, parsed and divided against itself. The whole is never intact in presentation: it is displaced, deferred, broken into instances that bear the trace of what they are […]
Many theories of consciousness attempt to resolve its opacity. Some frame it as an emergent computation arising from neural substrates; others treat it as an epiphenomenon, reducible to material process. Phenomenologists insist it must be described in its own terms, while eliminativists argue it is a cognitive illusion, a misapprehension of distributed processes. Each stance, […]
Let’s propose the following:Extra-dimensional logic is a system of inference and relation in which entities are not defined by their internal content or fixed identity, but by their capacity to transform under multi-dimensional mappings. Here, dimension refers not merely to physical space or temporal sequence, but to any additional axis of relation—conceptual, structural, semantic, or […]
Consciousness is (in Lao Tzu’s sense) the hole in the wheel that makes it useful. It is the conspicuously absent (but mischievously omnipresent) ontological unity, the counter-intuitively hollow yet binding property and inarticulable metaphysics of the manifest antinomy of logical system self-containment.
I wonder if a reflex to identify the where and the how of consciousness might not necessarily, if inadvertently, render the what inaccessibly unintelligible. Distributed (as emergent) system properties inhabit their transmission media in a counter-intuitive way. Yes – where, how and what are all different perspectives on the same abstract conceptual entity but the […]
Curiouser and curiouser. When we map a living thing upon or within itself and in or through its own cognitive and representational hyper-extension of technological mediation, we find our minds engaging this all as an aspiration towards closure and control yet forever fall short of attaining that goal. We can not completely model or map […]
Context: Decoding Decision-Making: Insect Brains Are More Complex Than We Thought I find it curious to consider how agency, volition, deliberation and the cognitive “inhabitation” of a form of life are slowly, begrudgingly being conceded to our ecological colleagues as something other than inevitable endpoint of human exceptionalism. Interesting, as a consequence, perhaps, to reflect […]
Context: Brain experiment suggests that consciousness relies on quantum entanglement Of microtubules and metaphors… …we can not describe anything beyond our systems of description. This tells us something significant about the nature of these conscious systems and of what kinds of explanations might be possible. Entanglement suggests, to my mind, that the ways in which […]
Context: Elon Musk & Joe Rogan talk to “conscious AI” If our intent in seeking to scale the complex asymptote of AGI has been to convince ourselves that it is conscious and possesses subjectivity, personhood or sentient experience, then it is perhaps inevitable that we will arrive at a point where the reflexive conversational and […]
Daedelus Kite 