It is not just what is said that matters, but also – the way in which it is said, the nuance, the poetry and the subtlety. This is the second-order semantics of meaning and style in communication and thought. It is not enough to simply know the names of things, the measures and to collect […]
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Evanescence
Travelling into the future is an inverse archaeology of entropy. There is some possible future, a singular branch of most probable outcomes in an undiscovered and unknowable configuration of ourselves towards which we all travel. A small consolation lies in being clever enough to decode this inexorable material process and abstract logical labyrinth of decay […]
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Gothic Beauty
The enigmas of human psychology and culture are writ large in the domain of Gothic fascination with darkness and death.
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Ouroboros
The logical necessity of recursively enigmatic self-propagation remains mysterious and somehow also essential for life and sentience.
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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.
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Now you see it… now you don’t.
The fact that any of this is happening at all is really quite peculiar but we seem to be blind to it, desensitised, unaware.
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No Ultimate Truth
The one ultimate truth is that there is no ultimate truth.
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Darkness and Light
There is darkness and there is light in every life.
Self and subjective psychological depth may be little more than a convenience – a fabrication or persistent fantasy and self-propagating illusion.
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An Accelerating Cosmos ?
The Cosmos appears to accelerating internally in some strange and as yet inexplicable way. Awesome…
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Rationalising the Temporal
Is the experience of time merely a biological curiosity or psychological artefact, a happy accident of life as an aggregate of structural coincidences at a particular nexus and scale of physics and chemistry ?
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