Tag: emptiness

A Fascination with Broken Things

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Post date Jul 6, 2019
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Broken things and imperfect people are often far more interesting than are complete and whole ones…

Tags art, asymptote, beauty, broken, crime, death, desire, dissonance, emptiness, entropy, evil, fate, fear, graffitti, hate, imperfection, impossible, life, loss, love, other, sadness, self, tattoo, visceral, war

The Abject Dissolution of Object Relations

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Post date Jul 6, 2019
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We find ourselves endlessly aspiring towards procedurally patterned symmetries of refinement in an iterated and accelerating aspiration towards beauty, knowledge and control.

Tags art, damien hirst, desire, emptiness, enigma, entropy, incompleteness, love, other, Philosophy, Psychology, self

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Unattainable You

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Post date Jul 6, 2019
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You can not be whole for the same reason you can not control the world – there is at base no controller, knower or self and this is the greatest unacknowledged enigma of our world.

Tags beauty, control, desire, emptiness, enigma, freedom, knowledge, love, Psychology, self

Philosophy

Into Emptiness

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Post date Jun 22, 2019
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Falling into emptiness…

Tags beauty, emptiness, truth, zen

logic

Consciousness is a Holistic Logical Bootstrap

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Post date Jun 19, 2019
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If consciousness is a holistic property of information and energy-processing systems, or even a “phase” of matter, it must have some very special logical properties.

Tags bootstrap, consciousness, discontinuity, emptiness, holistic, life, logic, mind, paradox, recursion, unified, unity, zen

Psychology

I’m looking through you…

I’m looking through you. Where did you go?

Tags buddhism, emptiness, facts, information, Philosophy, Psychology, self, zen

Alien Anthropology

Most of that which is “you” may not actually be you at all. What is original about you is the choices you make concerning the reconfiguration of preexisting things, concepts, objects, words, idioms and methods of self-expression.

Tags buddhism, culture, emptiness, logic, Philosophy, Psychology, self, zen

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A Boundless Cosmos

For a Universe to have spontaneously emerged from nothing may be an alternate view on the the same fact as that it has always existed. It is not the logic which fails so much as the implicit (or apparent) boundaries of our own minds.

Tags big bang, Complexity, cosmology, cosmos, emptiness, enigma, facts, infinity, information, life, logic, meaning, mystery, nothing, paradox, physics, purpose, recursion, truth, Universe, void

culture

Idioms of Absence

An epigenetic self-replication of the spiritual void, manifest as cultural entities in the contemporary Chinese art of Mi Qiaoming.

Tags art, artist, Buddha, buddhism, China, chinese, culture, emptiness, icon, information, masterpiece, Mi Qiaoming, painting, void

Philosophy

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 […]