Afraid of the Darkness that the Other and the Unknown represent, we inscribe this upon ourselves, into ourselves.
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Can anyone own the moon ?
If personal subjectivity is a reflection of an internalised concept of ownership and property, what happens if it turns out that neither individual identity nor notions of ownership are, beyond a very limited and historically or culturally contingent sense, actually real ?
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Manufacturing Loneliness
Psychological deficits and emotional asymmetry may the price (or at least – the cost) of social, economic and cultural continuity.
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Uncertainty and Continuity
Sequence and consistency are the orbital pivots of logic and truth…
What does an attempt to generate an artificially intelligent Theory of Mind (of the existence of intentions, experiences and inference of probable future actions) in other entities reveal about our own existential circumstances and the fundamental uncertainties of our own experience ?
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Masked
If nobody is actually who they appear to be, then neither are we (and even to ourselves) any more than ghostly probabilities or insubstantial shadows, masked and knowable…
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All Hollow
We are our own products and the curators of our selves…
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Reciprocity
We live through each other or not at all.
…by “mask” we might mean that social aspect and external face we wear to present our self-cultivated image to the world…
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Lost in You
I am lost in you, but then I am also lost in me…
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Metalogical
We become ensnared in the grand circularity of texts and philosophical assertions or opinions which characterise and compose the shared world of belief and illusion…
A political stance is really just a way of sharing with the world what you think that people really are…
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