Are you reducible to a mere bank balance, a browser-history, or a litany of parking offences ? It is because you are so much more than this that you are also, uncategorisably, implicitly, in and of your self – an emptiness and essential vacuum or void.
While it is true that no living person has ever proved that God does not exist, nor has any living person ever proved that unicorns do not exist…
The idea that Gödel’s logical insights might reflect deeply upon physics is fascinating…
It is quite possible to exist in a finite material context while the underlying organisational principles of that context exhibit or express infinite properties…
Abstractions are quite happy to exist alongside reality without challenging its ontological primacy in an way…
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…
It can be simultaneously entertaining and cathartic to dream improbable dreams…
This is not my life…
What if the world is essentially and fundamentally not what it appears to be ?
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, […]
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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