Context: New Data Breach Has Exposed Millions Of Fingerprint And Facial Recognition Records: Report There is an enigma here, far beyond the rank foolishness of keeping vast quantities of such sensitive data in an unencrypted format (see the linked article), there is a deeper problem. The more valuable any data is, the more incentive there […]
There are always things beyond the intelligible boundaries of the cognitive logic and cultural grammars within which we live.
Simulating the Universe to approximate to an understanding of galactic evolution.
Cultural change is cumulative self-gravitation.
Compared to Climate Change, Brexit is small cheese.
If we seek to explain sentience and consciousness we might not be particularly comforted by what we ultimately discover.
What if there was nothing at all?
It is only an immature psychological and cultural status which seeks certainty and completion in all things and in so doing, generates endless entropy and confusion. Science has no logical endpoint.
We are bound by fear to our Objects and fantasies of Other and Self as much as by desire and there is a complex logical undercurrent and rationale to the ways that we (enigmatically) encrypt aversion into attraction and revulsion or death into fertility and life.
The logical necessity of recursively enigmatic self-propagation remains mysterious and somehow also essential for life and sentience.
Every act of creativity and recombinatory cultural reconfiguration is both additive and subtractive – it is an addition of complexity and structure and is simultaneously the systemic logical negation of existing methods and strategies of organisation and thought.
Conflict and the means or methods of its execution lie at the center of all personal and (by extension or necessary inversion) collective history.
Daedelus Kite 