Tag: enigma

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

Psychology

Locked

Post author By G
Post date Jun 25, 2019
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That which frees us is also that which binds us.

Tags attachment, desire, emotion, enigma, feeling, freedom, Gordian Knot, happiness, lock, love, paradox, Philosophy, Psychology, zen

logic Philosophy physics

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

United Nations of Emptiness

Post author By G
Post date May 26, 2019
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The only way that systemic unity can exist is, enigmatically, by not existing.

Tags conflict, emptiness, enigma, logic, Peace, resolution, United Nations, unity, war

culture

CRISPR Wars: The Inevitability of Technological Entropy ?

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Post date May 11, 2019
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The great enigma of scientific and technological progress: for every great leap forwards there exists a concurrent potential for even greater (catastrophic) leaps backwards.

Tags catastrophe, civilisation, civilization, CRISPR, enigma, gene, genetics, history, insight, knowledge, logic, Science, technology, war

Psychology

The Implicit Psychological Entropy of Social Media

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Post date May 5, 2019
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Ideological turbulence, media distrust, fake news and the hyper-inflating bias towards successfully self-propagating inflammatory rhetoric in (or as) social media is one instance of a broader principle through which life and intelligence negotiate and harness or exploit entropy in information and energy processing systems.

Philosophy

Between Life and Death

Life is commonly considered as antithetical to death but in some ways, there may be a common ground and source between them.

Tags brain, Complexity, death, energy, enigma, information, inorganic, intelligence, life, living, organic, reanimation, sentience, zombie

Philosophy

Solving the Problem of Environmental Degradation requires us to Solve Ourselves

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Post date Apr 1, 2019
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Is it possible to genuinely acknowledge or effectively disentangle the diverse patterns and consequences of environmental disruption without also simultaneously addressing the core epistemological shortcomings of human cognition, of human nature ?

Tags blindspot, causation, climate change, Complexity, ecosystem, enigma, environment, Epistemology, logic, paradox, pollution, Psychology, reflexive, systems

politics

A Paradox of Online Political Engagement

Post author By G
Post date Oct 7, 2018
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The endless stoking of the fires of difference might do little over a longer term to benefit the ideological and political voices and positions of liberalism and humanism.