We are actually all a lot more random and emotional than we tend to realise.
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Human Intelligence 2.0
A characteristically long and wordy waffle on the topic of human intelligence, the cognitive hyper-extension of technology, an iterative fracture of grand narrative into abbreviated artefacts, unconscious biases and a Global turn towards authoritarianism.
None of us actually exist, at least not in the ways we generally believe that we do.
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The Emptiness
There may be something tragically inevitable in the procedural hollowing-out of social lives in an era of accelerating and technologically-mediated hyper-connectivity.
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Quieting the Ego
Psychological closure or completion of an isolated ego remains a functional, technological and sociological impossibility.
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Can anyone own the moon ?
If personal subjectivity is a reflection of an internalised concept of ownership and property, what happens if it turns out that neither individual identity nor notions of ownership are, beyond a very limited and historically or culturally contingent sense, actually real ?
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Endless Games
The purpose of this game (of life, of experience, of order and human intelligence) becomes the self-perpetuation of the game itself.
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Accelerating Frames of History
The moving frame, having moved, drags itself ever onwards…
Self and subjective psychological depth may be little more than a convenience – a fabrication or persistent fantasy and self-propagating illusion.
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Manufacturing Loneliness
Psychological deficits and emotional asymmetry may the price (or at least – the cost) of social, economic and cultural continuity.
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Impossible Things
Given sufficient complexity, energy or information flow and time, the logical end-state of any particular process need not itself under analysis appear as though rationally derived or even substantively plausible.
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Art without an Artist ?
Is AI-generated art an omen of things to come ? Are we writing ourselves out of our own story ?
