Category: philosophy
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Honesty, Truth, Bullshit & Lies
First off- because some of the content in this post was inspired by others, I feel I should give credit where credit is due. I love deep conversations with people, and I’ve been fortunate enough to have spent time with some great minds, and found some great communities over the past few years. Most notably,…
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The Dialectic of Self Interest and Altruism
What I mean by Dialectic is in line with Hegel’s concept of opposing concepts resolving in a synthesis of sorts. This post will be fairly short, but will capture a brief muse I’ve not yet written down in public. Essentially the muse is born of the question of whether self interest or altruism is 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 reality – Introduction pt.2
I’d like to offer a second part of the introduction, and revise some of what I have written previously, as well as contextualise and build upon the conceptual geometries stated. This will be useful for the next sections. First of all, I’d like to replace polarity with symmetry- as I think that polarity is a…
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Meditations on a Philosophy of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
I’d like to begin by introducing the concept of a dialectic; opposing conceptual forces. It is necessary for internal reasoning- with a good example being Socrates and his ‘daemon’, or Jesus and the ‘voice of god’ (which was essentially his own conscience), Descartes and his ‘great doubt’ too. I think Hegel was the first to…
Aethnen 