It is in these things never so tragic as to know or intuit what self-inflicted pain or suffering might be masked from those who suffer but not to be able to help them in any way. I have been through this experience of failed compassionate aspiration several times before and it is emotionally and mentally […]
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Rejection Reflection
Rejection is an empty room. Is the hollow hell of fear we feel the clear and present absence as much and in or of ourselves as that of any Other? We each and all in turn eventually reject that Other self and in dusty, mirrored isolation turn once more towards our own essential emptiness and […]
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Emotion
There is a unique and binding property of emotional life that is quite poorly captured by neuroscientific reductionism to organic chemistry, to pure blind mechanism. While it might be true that we can correlate emotional experience with chemical and electrical facts, it is also true that beyond quite limited chemical or behavioural influence, these facts […]
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What does love feel like?
Dissimulated emotional authenticity… “Dissimulation” is a curious term for Nietzsche to use; something is lost in translation? It is all about concealment, obfuscation, to pretend not to have what one has and to pretend to have what one most certainly does not. Perhaps he was suggesting that there is an irreducible element of theatre in […]
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Human Beings Being Human: Anger
It is a simple truth. Fear drives most of our irrational decisions and our inability to admit it is in fact the greatest fallacy of all. Violence, war, hatred, discrimination, cruelty – it is all at base and in essence just fear under another name. People fear the truth of their own essential vulnerability more […]
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Emotionally Random
I wonder at times if all of our emotional lives are little more than random fluctuations and transient, effervescent flickering candle flames in the chaos of our minds and of this, our shared world. Somewhere between the volatile, if probabilistically determinate, entropy of physiological or cognitive reflex and those diverse rationales and causes we retrospectively […]
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Detecting Deception
In an era of machine learning and artificial intelligence, there may be nowhere that is not unveiled by the light of information and data measurement.
Does social media only really exploit us and invoke reflexive psychological and emotional dependency?
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Locked
That which frees us is also that which binds us.
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Hollow Wisdom and Love
Do we fall in love with a person or do we fall in love with the idea of a person? We can never ever really get inside someone else’s head, experience the world as they do and through their eyes, so we are surely only ever as much in love with who we think that […]
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Anger
Anger. It’s really very simple.
Loneliness may be to some extent inevitable; suffering as a consequence is probably not…
