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.
Tag: consciousness
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.
Absence is not a flaw in the structure. Absence is the engine.
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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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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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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enlightenment
Enlightenment begins where the search for certainty ends.
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my neurological double-tap
Two strokes left me stranded at the edge of the social world, trying to rebuild an adaptive, communicative interface that most others take for granted.
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continuum: if unity, then…
Life does not belong to things. Things belong to life. Consciousness, relation, memory, recurrence, and form are not exceptions within reality. They are what reality does.
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reality
Reality is not made of things. Things are what appear when deeper patterns of relation become temporarily stable.
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the conspicuous absence in science
Science has not stopped discovering reality. We have become less capable of surviving what those discoveries imply about ourselves.
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miracle of persistence
Life is not astonishing simply because it exists. It is astonishing because, against every available opportunity to fall apart, it keeps holding together and this resilience is the kernel core of its persistence.
