Tag: philosophy of mind

Teresa Brennan: Philosophy of Affect

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Post date Jan 15, 2026
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Teresa Brennan was an Australian feminist philosopher whose work crossed psychoanalysis, philosophy, and social theory, frequently placing her at odds with academic orthodoxy. She challenged dominant Lacanian interpretations by insisting that affect is not a linguistic effect or private feeling but a materially transmissible force that moves between bodies and across institutions. This stance drew […]

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how language shapes the reality we think we inhabit

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Post date Jan 14, 2026
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We learn to navigate the world by drawing lines through it. Self and other. Mind and world. Human and machine. These distinctions help us function, the way handrails help us walk down unfamiliar stairs. They stabilise action and expectation. But they are not where reality begins. They are not built into the fabric of existence. […]

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Philosophy

Philosophical Alienation

Consciousness entails perspectival isolation. Subjective experience is necessarily local, bounded by the fact that one mind does not have direct access to another. Philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and cognitive science converge on this constraint, whether framed as first-person authority, privacy of qualia, or irreducible point of view. Language does not remove this barrier. It operationalises […]

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Human Wholeness

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Post date Aug 30, 2025
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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 […]

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On Mind

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Post date Dec 19, 2024
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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 […]

Philosophy

Conscious AI?

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Post date May 21, 2023
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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 […]

Science

A Thousand Brains

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 […]

Philosophy

Free Fire: Nonexistence of Self

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Post date Dec 31, 2019
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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 […]