The catastrophic entropy of a currently most-probable future is not the only available solution in the possibility-space of all emergent and adaptive human planetary civilisations.
Tag: Psychology
Void and Unknowing
The core experience and sense or perception of self is real, but the self is not.
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.
Utopian Entropy
Utopian approximations towards self-organisation is emergent under sufficient circumstances and in well-tuned resonances.
If we seek to explain sentience and consciousness we might not be particularly comforted by what we ultimately discover.
Detecting Deception
In an era of machine learning and artificial intelligence, there may be nowhere that is not unveiled by the light of information and data measurement.
Does social media only really exploit us and invoke reflexive psychological and emotional dependency?
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.
Unattainable You
You can not be whole for the same reason you can not control the world – there is at base no controller, knower or self and this is the greatest unacknowledged enigma of our world.
There is only one underlying logical information system – all ideologies are contingent interpretations that are biased towards selfish needs.
Conflict and the means or methods of its execution lie at the center of all personal and (by extension or necessary inversion) collective history.