Tag: philosophy
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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…
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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…
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A Game Theory of Ethics
When people hear game theory it might conjure a range of ideas. Firstly- the most boring: ‘playing the game’ – any wannabe sociopath or elbows-out-and-down social ladder scrambler might take it as an invitation for competition, a battle of wills, wits, and social maneuvering. They often don’t consider that this ladder is a conditioned value…
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Principia Primordia – Meditations & Reasoning on the Structure of the Universe: Part 1 – Introduction
The Universe may never be explainable in a single formal framework – which I think is fair to say is the endeavour of contemporary theoretical physics. A unification of formal systems of prediction. Godel’s incompleteness theorem shows us that no formal axiomatic system of logic or maths can ever be ‘complete’; that is to say…
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A Song of Life
Softly spoken-The great tale is told.Not with word nor whisper,But song-music of the soul. Lone rhythm, one of many-Self only known within,Awakens; this strange singularity,The great melody begins. Mind like a loose leaf (floating),Time but a gentle breeze,Reality a loose weave (tapestry unwinding),Existing only as it seems. As I’m sleeping- (dreaming),This strange delusion;Each to their…
Aethnen 