Abstractions are quite happy to exist alongside reality without challenging its ontological primacy in an way…
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Meta-Psychology
Finding ourselves not so much imprisoned as set free by a shadowy and indistinct world of probability, complexity and uncertainty is in some way strangely comforting…
Belief has always been quite easily uncoupled from reality…
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The Improbable Dream
It can be simultaneously entertaining and cathartic to dream improbable dreams…
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Once in a Lifetime
This is not my life…
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Through the Looking Glass
What if the world is essentially and fundamentally not what it appears to be ?
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Lost in Translation
I often write as reflection to other’s thoughts and words, as comments or critical remarks upon other ideas. This tends to lead me more into my own meanings and worlds wrought of words. This is a high-wire act of balancing on a fragile thread of meaning strung between the intended meaning of the original message, […]
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Alternate Facts: Fake Realities
Wow. It didn’t take long for that to escalate. “Post-truth” has now found itself instantiated as “alternate fact” in popular media discourse. Trump’s press secretary did not (strictly speaking) lie, he expressed an “alternate fact”. Not only have we gone beyond an investment in the integrity of at least partial credibility or claim to verifiable […]
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A Systems-Theoretical Self
A systems-theoretical self is the empty set, taken as an object and then reflexively, recursively, iteratively reflected back into itself. Like the basis for counting: a base set of emptiness, itself impermeable and mysterious, becomes refracted through some elemental logic into a duplicity of itself and that which it is not. That which something which is nothing is not is itself something and through the impossible…
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“Truth” or Reality ?
Bruce Lee is interesting because, among other things, he saw the ways people bury the creative essence of a good idea in repetition and blind formality. To see things as they really are we perhaps need to see ourselves first, even if that means unravelling the tangles…
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Rationalising the Temporal
Is the experience of time merely a biological curiosity or psychological artefact, a happy accident of life as an aggregate of structural coincidences at a particular nexus and scale of physics and chemistry ?
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