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Culture and Mind: Surface, Depth, Continuum

Culture is the logical inversion of the human mind.

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Philosophy

No One Owns Truth

There is no “best” idea, there are only “better” ones.

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AI

Neural Network Concept Ontology

As Neural Networks get progressively smarter, our own intellect loses some of its unique character and special nature.

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culture

Uncertainty

Even a mature narrative of impermanence and endemic metamorphosis can sometimes be little more than an existential security blanket…

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Philosophy

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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Philosophy

A Systems-Theoretical Self

A systems-theoretical self is the empty set, taken as an object and then reflexively, recursively, iteratively reflected back into itself. Like the basis for counting: a base set of emptiness, itself impermeable and mysterious, becomes refracted through some elemental logic into a duplicity of itself and that which it is not. That which something which is nothing is not is itself something and through the impossible…