When psychological insecurity and political desperation convene, they generate an entangled, self-gravitational field of caricature—where “the Other” becomes a constructed antipode whose very existence is required to validate the ideological self. These manufactured simplicities thrive on contrast, feeding off the projection of weakness, danger, or impurity, so that the fragile unity of the in-group appears […]
On Mind (A Reassuring Perspective) We often picture the mind as something solid—a steady presence behind our thoughts and feelings. It’s comforting to believe that there is a core “self” guiding everything, a firm anchor in a world that can feel uncertain. And yet, when we look more carefully, the mind turns out to be […]
I’d be much more worried about an unconscious AI. The impending corporate dissimulation of an omniscient technocratic overlord will attract and acquire all the trappings and recursively self-propagating (human) interfaces of a complex system that maximally self-propagates and self-sustains as a function of the uncertainties it invokes in regards to ambiguities regarding the proof of […]
I’m about half way through reading Jeff Hawkins’ book “A Thousand Brains” which has been taking me quite some time, not because it is overly complicated or inaccessible, but because I tend to have so little spare time these days. It’s an interesting read with the key takeaway (so far) being that our mental world […]
You do not exist. Not, at least beyond that very limited aggregate of abstractions, words, images, ideas and narrative (or cultural) conventions within which you find yourself embedded and as a transient expression of. It is a little-known fact that from within any non-trivially sophisticated system of ordered symbols, logic and (inevitably, also) psychology and […]
Daedelus Kite 