Author: Connagh Wrangle
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Schizophrenic Politics and the Modern World Stage
Schizophrenia, meaning ‘split mind’ in ancient Greek- there is no better term for the current state of politics. Vladislav Surkov (“Putin’s Rasputin”) introduced some interesting concepts to the Russian propaganda machine, inspired by absurdist and surrealist art theory. If you can make such a confusion of a spectacle, make every event polarising and divisive, and…
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When I Was Wise
I was wise when I was youngI saw things for what they areNot as they seemWith some filter of perceptionMy own perceptionOverlayed.As I grow olderI blame myself moreI self loatheI do not pityBut I resent myself in my imperfection.When I was a childI took my own adviceI was forgiving and kindAnd I was wiseFor I…
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A Balanced Approach to Physical Training
It’s funny- we’ve moved so far away from our natural way of being as humans that we now need to simulate those physical labours that were once our means of survival. From hunter-gatherers, tree climbers, and the greatest long-distance runners in the animal kingdom – we now spend our spare time in the gym in…
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The Future of AI in Government? Democracy is in Need of an Upgrade.
We spend so much of our time and attention on our devices, and I have a sneaking suspicion that the future of political technology will involve a digital government platform. With the right security measures in place it would increase accessibility, the number of people actively voting (at the push of a button in the…
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Principia Primordia – Meditations on the Structure of the Universe – Quantum Phenomena Part 2: Superposition, Entanglement, Quantum Gravity and Dark Matter.
So, to revise what has been previously said: Things exist locally to a frame (the same general area) over a duration, by spinning about an axis or around a point; things either fly through space linearly- into the distance and away, or they orbit around a common point (stars around the galactic centre, planets around…
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The Intersection of AI, Free Will, and Ancient Philosophies
What wisdom can 3000 year old scripture shed on AI and consciousness? Whilst the rest of the old world tried to investigate the nature of reality by studying the objective world, there were a group of people who understood that this endeavour had limits. Given that we experience the world through the subjective lense of…
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Elohim
A water-drop upon-the seas of time.Perturbed; ocean waves, embraced:Eating its own tail -a snake.Self-reflected around-about-a mirror in the middle. A dream of a dream, and all else;The primordial song, a musical spell. A well-beam of light, held in place- single moment.Time chain-link in flight, intercausal foment;a wrestle with own substance, gnarled limbs in collaborative contest,…
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An Existential Ramble
How to be a conscientious objector to a world from which I cannot be separate? I work, I earn good money…But I work for a machine that funds oil, mining, and weapons manufacture; all of which come at the expense of my fellow man and the planet on which I live. So what, then?Resign myself…
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Principia Primordia – Meditations on the Structure of the Universe: Quantum Phenomena – Part 1: Superposition of Spin States and Entanglement
Most of us have heard of the famous cat in the box- both dead and alive; a thought experiment intended to highlight the unintuitive behaviour of physics at a quantum level. Well, a cat being dead and alive is a very strange and unintuitive way of describing it as far as I’m concerned- and there’s…
Aethnen 