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Philosophy

Pivoting Towards Eternity

Many years exploring the relationships underlying existence have taught me that understanding requires no permission. Life is short, and eternity remains indifferent to worldy vanity.

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Philosophy

Terminal Velocity: Civilisation and the Great Filter

We have built a civilisation capable of transforming an entire planet, yet incapable of managing the consequences.

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Philosophy

Existence Is Relation: Identity, Time and Incompleteness

Things do not exist first and then form relationships. They emerge through relationships that sustain them. Identity, time and existence arise from differences that can never be completely resolved.

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Philosophy

Is AI Conscious? Ask Mathematics.

Is artificial intelligence conscious? The deeper question is whether complex mathematical structuire is conscious; what happens when physics, mathematics and technology converge.

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Philosophy

Eight Billion Nervous Systems and Nobody at the Wheel

From social media and human psychology to Gaia and cosmic self-regulation, an exploration of identity, feedback, emergence and the illusion of control.

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Philosophy

Forever Young: Immortality, Consciousness and Death

What if immortality is not living forever, but something more fundamental? An exploration of consciousness, logical incompleteness, spiritual existence and the possibility that death is essential to life.

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Philosophy

Harmonic Structure: How Reality, Mind and Meaning Emerge

Exploring harmonic structure, observation, language and consciousness, and why uncertainty is fundamental to reality and the possibility of knowledge.

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Philosophy

The Mind Is Civilisation: Psychotherapy, AI and Infinity

We are not outside the world we are trying to understand. We are (all) implicated in its disorders, participants in its reproduction, and responsible for what happens next.

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Philosophy systems

Persistence of Reality

Reality persists because nothing (and only nothing!) ever fully coincides with itself.

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cybernetics

how complex institutions preserve failure

Institutions rarely fail because they cannot recognise problems. They fail because recognising problems is not the same as escaping the conditions that reproduce them.

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Philosophy

śūnyatā and the generative logic of absence

Absence is not a flaw in the structure. Absence is the engine.

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cybernetics

the same problem

The most important pattern in modern society is the one almost nobody is looking for.