Tag: truth

What is Beauty?

Post author By G
Post date Jul 7, 2019
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True beauty just is, and exists before language, thought and technology.

Tags aesthetics, beauty, culture, desire, other, self, truth

Desire and Fear

Post author By G
Post date Jul 6, 2019
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We are bound by fear to our Objects and fantasies of Other and Self as much as by desire and there is a complex logical undercurrent and rationale to the ways that we (enigmatically) encrypt aversion into attraction and revulsion or death into fertility and life.

Tags art, beauty, death, desire, emptiness, entropy, eros, fact, horror, inflection, life, logic, love, mind, other, self, sex, space, thanatos, truth, ugly

Alien Anthropology

The Necessary Evolution of Difference and Conflict

Post author By G
Post date Jun 30, 2019
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Conflict and the means or methods of its execution lie at the center of all personal and (by extension or necessary inversion) collective history.

Tags civilisation, civilization, conflict, difference, evolution, fact, history, holism, holistic, humanity, ideology, information, intelligence, logic, other, Peace, physics, politics, Psychology, recursion, self, systems, truth, war, wisdom

Philosophy

Visualising Reality

There is no “best” theory, there are only progressively “better” ones.

Tags algorithm, algorithmic information theory, approximation, compression, cosmology, cosmos, data, Gödel, incompleteness, information, Kurt Gödel, Philosophy, philosophy of science, recursion, Science, truth, Universe

Philosophy

Into Emptiness

Post author By G
Post date Jun 22, 2019
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Falling into emptiness…

Tags beauty, emptiness, truth, zen

Philosophy

No One Owns Truth

There is no “best” idea, there are only “better” ones.

culture

A World at War with Itself

Post author By G
Post date Jun 8, 2019
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At the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, it is a good time to reflect upon where we are all going as a civilisation and what we might plausibly achieve to inhibit, interdict or halt the possibility of any similar global catastrophes from ever occurring again.

Tags 1944, authoritarian, catastrophe, Civil War, civilisation, civilization, D-Day, fact, fear, future, hate, history, hope, ideology, information, Invasion, logic, Normandy, Peace, politics, populism, populist, Psychology, regime, truth, war, World War, WW2

logic Philosophy physics

A Boundless Cosmos

For a Universe to have spontaneously emerged from nothing may be an alternate view on the the same fact as that it has always existed. It is not the logic which fails so much as the implicit (or apparent) boundaries of our own minds.

Tags big bang, Complexity, cosmology, cosmos, emptiness, enigma, facts, infinity, information, life, logic, meaning, mystery, nothing, paradox, physics, purpose, recursion, truth, Universe, void

Philosophy

Hollow Wisdom and Love

Do we fall in love with a person or do we fall in love with the idea of a person? We can never ever really get inside someone else’s head, experience the world as they do and through their eyes, so we are surely only ever as much in love with who we think that […]

Tags emotion, emptiness, logic, love, other, Psychology, self, truth, void, zen

culture systems

It’s all a Conspiracy, dude…

Post author By G
Post date Jun 1, 2019
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Conspiracy theories are interesting, if for the most part demonstrably false. In the integrated information environment we live in, conspiracies are the little sisters of fake news but it is all on a colourful spectrum from plausible fiction to complete and utter bullshit.