Things do not exist first and then form relationships. They emerge through relationships that sustain them. Identity, time and existence arise from differences that can never be completely resolved.
Tag: Ontology
Exploring harmonic structure, observation, language and consciousness, and why uncertainty is fundamental to reality and the possibility of knowledge.
Peace is not merely difficult. We have built institutions, identities, economies and languages whose coherence depends upon the persistence of conflict.
The present is not where possibility ends. It is where an immeasurably larger field of possible futures acquires one local history.
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outer limits: impredicativity
Every explanation of reality becomes another part of the reality left to explain:
E(R) ∈ R → E(R) ≠ R.
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why identity is not as simple as A = A
A is A. The interesting question is how it keeps getting away with it.
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continuum: if unity, then…
Life does not belong to things. Things belong to life. Consciousness, relation, memory, recurrence, and form are not exceptions within reality. They are what reality does.
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reality
Reality is not made of things. Things are what appear when deeper patterns of relation become temporarily stable.
Fear of others is not finally fear of difference, but fear of the gap through which the self discovers it was never solid, never alone, and never entirely its own.
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Ethical Selves
What is missing precedes the language with which we attempt to describe its consequences.
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Afterlife
The afterlife, if the phrase is to be used at all, is not best imagined as a sentimental annex bolted onto death. Nor, however, is it something about which confidence is easily justified. What we call a life may be only a local and temporary stabilisation within conditions the person cannot comprehend or contain. The […]
The only (or at least most) comprehensive way to account for emergent behaviour is to grant some ontic reality to the abstract relational patterns, symmetries, and phase dynamics that bind and sustain it. A collection of things is, in other words, also a thing. That is not especially surprising at one intuitive level, but it […]
