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Philosophy

Is AI Conscious? Ask Mathematics.

Is artificial intelligence conscious? The deeper question is whether complex mathematical structuire is conscious; what happens when physics, mathematics and technology converge.

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Philosophy

Eight Billion Nervous Systems and Nobody at the Wheel

From social media and human psychology to Gaia and cosmic self-regulation, an exploration of identity, feedback, emergence and the illusion of control.

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Philosophy

Forever Young: Immortality, Consciousness and Death

What if immortality is not living forever, but something more fundamental? An exploration of consciousness, logical incompleteness, spiritual existence and the possibility that death is essential to life.

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Philosophy

Harmonic Structure: How Reality, Mind and Meaning Emerge

Exploring harmonic structure, observation, language and consciousness, and why uncertainty is fundamental to reality and the possibility of knowledge.

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Philosophy

The Big Empty: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Generative Logic of Absence

Absence is not the opposite of existence, but the generative condition through which difference, organisation, consciousness and cosmos emerge and persist.

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Philosophy

The Mind Is Civilisation: Psychotherapy, AI and Infinity

We are not outside the world we are trying to understand. We are (all) implicated in its disorders, participants in its reproduction, and responsible for what happens next.

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Philosophy

Spirituality: Infinity, Emptiness and the Structure of Reality

Heaven is not somewhere beyond the world; if it can be said to exist at all, it must be found within the inexhaustibly complex structure already here.

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Philosophy

śūnyatā and the generative logic of absence

Absence is not a flaw in the structure. Absence is the engine.

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Philosophy Psychology

why you can never fully know yourself

The self depends on a membrane of belief separating “me” from the world, though almost everything constructing that “me” comes from elsewhere.

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Philosophy

outer limits: impredicativity

Every explanation of reality becomes another part of the reality left to explain:
E(R) ∈ R → E(R) ≠ R.

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Philosophy

consciousness and the human world

Symbolic systems presuppose an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system fully accounts for the existence of experience itself.

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Philosophy

enlightenment

Enlightenment begins where the search for certainty ends.