The core experience and sense or perception of self is real, but the self is not.
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There are no “Creative Types”
We are all, each and every one of us, “creative types”.
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Consciousness: Beyond Opposites
Consciousness will only ever be partially explained and even then, never in terms of the legacy polar opposites of mind and matter.
If we seek to explain sentience and consciousness we might not be particularly comforted by what we ultimately discover.
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The Great Unknown
It is only an immature psychological and cultural status which seeks certainty and completion in all things and in so doing, generates endless entropy and confusion. Science has no logical endpoint.
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The Creativity of Cultural Erasure
Every act of creativity and recombinatory cultural reconfiguration is both additive and subtractive – it is an addition of complexity and structure and is simultaneously the systemic logical negation of existing methods and strategies of organisation and thought.
We find ourselves endlessly aspiring towards procedurally patterned symmetries of refinement in an iterated and accelerating aspiration towards beauty, knowledge and control.
There is only one underlying logical information system – all ideologies are contingent interpretations that are biased towards selfish needs.
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Visualising Reality
There is no “best” theory, there are only progressively “better” ones.
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Locked
That which frees us is also that which binds us.
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No One Owns Truth
There is no “best” idea, there are only “better” ones.
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?
Daedelus Kite 