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Negation

Endemic epistemological blindspots are interesting. Systems of belief are always at some level self-referential tautologies. The one thing that they can never unproblematically represent is themselves. Consequently – models are inviolably incomplete but this is not a system bug, it is an indefinitely extensible introspective feature. It’s also an early waypoint in the journey of […]

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Life as Function of Approximation

Finding ourselves existentially foregrounded as the protagonist in and of all we do, it is almost inevitable that we come to think of ourselves as exceptional or special and in those instances when the healthy doubt of a wise, common or garden-variety insecure intellect dawns upon us, we quite rapidly and gratefully barter our own […]