No one is in control of life anywhere near so much as we might choose to believe. At some level we all know this but we also rarely choose to acknowledge it; it frightens us. Our endless fascination with pattern and order, with declarations of certainty and knowledge – these are at least in part […]
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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.
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The Beautiful Uncertainty of Nature
It is in our attempts to explain, to mimic and to supersede nature that our greatest failures manifest themselves.
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The Uncertainty Zeitgeist
Substantive, meaningful content in our shared information spaces is suffering from an information-systems evolutionary selection mechanism that is implicitly biased towards continuity over coherence.
Rationality is (a) key, but it can not explain (or unlock) itself.
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Uncertainty and Continuity
Sequence and consistency are the orbital pivots of logic and truth…
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Thoughts on Death and Metaphysics
Death must always remain an unreasonable enigma…
What does an attempt to generate an artificially intelligent Theory of Mind (of the existence of intentions, experiences and inference of probable future actions) in other entities reveal about our own existential circumstances and the fundamental uncertainties of our own experience ?
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Uncertainty
Even a mature narrative of impermanence and endemic metamorphosis can sometimes be little more than an existential security blanket…
Belief has always been quite easily uncoupled from reality…
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Uncertainty
Do you ever get the feeling that no one really ever knows what they are doing ?
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