On Mind (A Reassuring Perspective) We often picture the mind as something solid—a steady presence behind our thoughts and feelings. It’s comforting to believe that there is a core “self” guiding everything, a firm anchor in a world that can feel uncertain. And yet, when we look more carefully, the mind turns out to be […]
It’s curious that the cognitive systems and languages through which we aspire to illustrate these existential intricacies of mortality are themselves so viscerally and intimately dependent upon teleological endpoints as anchors of meaning that when they attempt to embrace the meaningless vacuum and grand tautology at their core, they always fail. Is this failure of […]
You do not exist. Not, at least beyond that very limited aggregate of abstractions, words, images, ideas and narrative (or cultural) conventions within which you find yourself embedded and as a transient expression of. It is a little-known fact that from within any non-trivially sophisticated system of ordered symbols, logic and (inevitably, also) psychology and […]
Daedelus Kite 