Sometimes the most profound truths (or at the very least – facts) emerge not from what does exist, but from what does not.
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A (perceived) ethical void in the bare-metal mechanisms of pure mathematical and statistical Reason generates that ideological and cultural reflex we see all around us as intransigent denial of demonstrable and provable facts.
Systems-theoretical analyses of human conflict suggest that it may be an inevitable error or fault in the self-replication of those complex patterns of information and energy that we recognise as society, technology and historical metamorphosis.
The emergence of structured and patterned complexity may just be an inevitable consequence of a Cosmos in which the self-replicating, iterating logical process of self-replication itself represents the simplest, low-energy (and minimal algorithmic information complexity) state of any dynamical process.
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The Outer Limits of Knowledge
Misunderstanding the world in fundamental ways, as we generally do, we more often (and collectively) seek continuity and security in those things which are only very rarely able to provide them…
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Is Mathematics Real ?
Does mathematics exist beyond material reality in a world of perfect (Platonic) abstraction ?
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Of Stardust and Story-telling
Some truths and realities may just be monumentally and inconceivably vaster than human minds can ever comprehend…
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Finite on an Infinite Sequence
It is quite possible to exist in a finite material context while the underlying organisational principles of that context exhibit or express infinite properties…
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Abstractions from Reality
Abstractions are quite happy to exist alongside reality without challenging its ontological primacy in an way…
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Is Mathematics Real ?
On a purely pragmatic level: beyond philosophical complexities and existential insecurities, it does not actually matter whether mathematics is real and independent of us or if it is purely a procedurally self-consistent intellectual ecology of mysteriously effective principles, rules and axioms. Maths works for us. That is the crux. Personally, I think it has some […]
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