There is no “best” idea, there are only “better” ones.
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Does the plausible and probable distributed computation of the hyper-extended cognitive technologies of our material culture generate us just as much as we generate it?
Global organisational neuroses as inhibiting factor in addressing climate change?
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I’m looking through you…
I’m looking through you. Where did you go?
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Counter-culture as Useful Entropy
The dissonance of difference serves useful purposes for the continuity of cultural sytems.
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Emptiness of Self
Most of that which is “you” may not actually be you at all. What is original about you is the choices you make concerning the reconfiguration of preexisting things, concepts, objects, words, idioms and methods of self-expression.
A (perceived) ethical void in the bare-metal mechanisms of pure mathematical and statistical Reason generates that ideological and cultural reflex we see all around us as intransigent denial of demonstrable and provable facts.
Humanity spends far too much time bickering and fighting over how we will collectively move forward to ever actually get on with the very serious business of actually ensuring our own continuity, survival and ongoing tenure on this planet.
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Living through Language
Do we live through words or do words live through us ?
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Impossible Things
Given sufficient complexity, energy or information flow and time, the logical end-state of any particular process need not itself under analysis appear as though rationally derived or even substantively plausible.
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On Introspection (as Reality)
Introspection is endless and is for all this – endlessly problematic.
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On Ethics
The implicit inconsistency of sufficiently complex logical systems implies that ethical systems, abandoned by the metaphysical anchor of immanent divinity, must seek their own internal anchors and logical certainty.
Daedelus Kite 