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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.

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culture

Idioms of Absence

An epigenetic self-replication of the spiritual void, manifest as cultural entities in the contemporary Chinese art of Mi Qiaoming.

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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 […]

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Alien Anthropology

Now you see it… now you don’t.

The fact that any of this is happening at all is really quite peculiar but we seem to be blind to it, desensitised, unaware.

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Philosophy

No Ultimate Truth

The one ultimate truth is that there is no ultimate truth.

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Alien Anthropology

Convenient Fictions of Non-being

None of us actually exist, at least not in the ways we generally believe that we do.

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culture Philosophy Psychology

Positive Feedback Loops and the Emptiness of Self

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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culture

Leonardo’s Kickflip

It is only a skateboard with a stenciled Last Supper and like this reference is only pretending to be something indirectly other than what it simply is…

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Philosophy

Void

There is so much discussion of mindfulness, what of mind-emptiness ? Lao-Tzu knew the eminent usefulness of that which is not there. Something which is nothing can in fact be absolutely anything…