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Tag: Philosophy

Consciousness: Beyond Opposites

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Post date Jul 31, 2019
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Consciousness will only ever be partially explained and even then, never in terms of the legacy polar opposites of mind and matter.

Tags behaviouralism, Complexity, consciousness, functionalism, Idealism, information, Materialism, matter, mind, Philosophy, Psychology

Philosophy

Disassembling Sentience: Distributed Multidimensional Computation

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Post date Jul 20, 2019
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If we seek to explain sentience and consciousness we might not be particularly comforted by what we ultimately discover.

Tags awareness, Complexity, computation, consciousness, information, insight, logic, narrative, Philosophy, processing, Psychology, recursion, self-replication, sentience

Alien Anthropology

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.

Tags astronomy, brevity, civilisation, civilization, Complexity, compression, Gödel, information, Kardashev, kolmogorov, logic, Philosophy, physics, Science, space

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The Creativity of Cultural Erasure

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Post date Jul 6, 2019
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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.

Tags art, change, cognition, evolution, extension, fractal, incompleteness, information, iteration, logic, mathematics, metamorphosis, negatiin, phase transition, Philosophy, Psychology, recursion, system

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The Abject Dissolution of Object Relations

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Post date Jul 6, 2019
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We find ourselves endlessly aspiring towards procedurally patterned symmetries of refinement in an iterated and accelerating aspiration towards beauty, knowledge and control.

Tags art, damien hirst, desire, emptiness, enigma, entropy, incompleteness, love, other, Philosophy, Psychology, self

Alien Anthropology

Democracy and Authoritarianism are Strange Bedfellows

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Post date Jul 1, 2019
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There is only one underlying logical information system – all ideologies are contingent interpretations that are biased towards selfish needs.

Philosophy

Visualising Reality

There is no “best” theory, there are only progressively “better” ones.

Tags algorithm, algorithmic information theory, approximation, compression, cosmology, cosmos, data, Gödel, incompleteness, information, Kurt Gödel, Philosophy, philosophy of science, recursion, Science, truth, Universe

Psychology

Locked

Post author By G
Post date Jun 25, 2019
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That which frees us is also that which binds us.

Tags attachment, desire, emotion, enigma, feeling, freedom, Gordian Knot, happiness, lock, love, paradox, Philosophy, Psychology, zen

Philosophy

No One Owns Truth

There is no “best” idea, there are only “better” ones.

culture

Within You, Without You: the Computation of Material Culture

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Post date Jun 18, 2019
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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?