If consciousness is a holistic property of information and energy-processing systems, or even a “phase” of matter, it must have some very special logical properties.

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culture

Within You, Without You: the Computation of Material Culture

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Post date Jun 18, 2019
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Does the plausible and probable distributed computation of the hyper-extended cognitive technologies of our material culture generate us just as much as we generate it?

Tags art, artefacts, computation, culture, discontinuity, information, inversion, life, logic, material culture, möbius strip, mutual causation, Philosophy, physics, Psychology, reflexive, zen

Psychology

I’m looking through you…

I’m looking through you. Where did you go?

Tags buddhism, emptiness, facts, information, Philosophy, Psychology, self, zen

Alien Anthropology

Most of that which is “you” may not actually be you at all. What is original about you is the choices you make concerning the reconfiguration of preexisting things, concepts, objects, words, idioms and methods of self-expression.

Tags buddhism, culture, emptiness, logic, Philosophy, Psychology, self, zen

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.

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Post date Jun 2, 2019
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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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Alien Anthropology Philosophy

Endless Games

Post author By G
Post date Dec 12, 2018
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The purpose of this game (of life, of experience, of order and human intelligence) becomes the self-perpetuation of the game itself.

Tags existence, experience, game, games, logic, mind, rules, self, zen

Philosophy

Through the Looking Glass

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Post date Apr 9, 2017
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What if the world is essentially and fundamentally not what it appears to be ?

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Philosophy

On Unity

Post author By G
Post date Mar 22, 2017
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Self and world are nothing in themselves and it is only in the interactions and creative, fundamentally incomplete interplay that they both gain substance…

Tags mushin, oneness, self, self-expression, unity, zen