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Resurrecting Reality

January 30, 2012 - 7:56 pm

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All my philosophical investigations have led me back to ‘the mathematics of belief’; to the type of ‘reason’ and ‘logic’ we use to ‘make sense’ of our experiencing of the world, and in the case of Western civilization, to ‘bury reality’ beneath it.

‘Transformation’ – Where ‘production’ and ‘destruction’ are ‘conjugates’

January 23, 2012 - 12:51 am

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  Would you want to know the source of major dysfunction in the world? … even if it challenged the foundational assumptions/beliefs of your culture?

Reality-Check: A Quiz for the Metaphysically Inquisitive

January 14, 2012 - 12:58 am

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    Answering the following questions may give some insights on how solid is your grasp of reality.

Civilization: The Hijacking of Sentience by Reason

January 7, 2012 - 4:19 pm

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    As Ralph Waldo Emerson says in ‘The Method of Nature’, “The tool [of reason] has run away with the workman.” And as Friedrich Nietzsche says in ‘Twilight of the Idols’; “Reason” is the cause of our falsification of the testimony of the senses. Insofar as the senses show becoming, passing away, and change, [...]

A Christmas Shadow

December 25, 2011 - 5:42 pm

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  Is there not a ‘dark side’ to the ‘cleansing of Ebenezer Scrooge’ in Charles Dickens ‘A Christmas Carol’?  Scrooge, the ‘bad boss’ transforms into Scrooge the ‘good boss’, persuading us that ‘goodness’ and ‘badness’ are absolutes that fountain forth from the interior of individuals understood as ‘sovereign powers’ or ‘things-in-themselves’.  Surely the ‘good action’ [...]

The ‘Experiential Reality’ Beneath the ‘Language Game Illusion’

December 14, 2011 - 6:55 pm

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  Introduction:  Behaviours can be ‘situationally animated’ and they can be ‘language animated’.  When we get together to try to understand ‘the world dynamic’, we do so using synthetic realities constructed with ‘words-as-subjects’ to depict the ‘animating agencies’.  In the above graphic, situation animated dynamics ‘actually’ shape the boundaries of ‘states’.  But once we have [...]

Figure and Ground: Dynamic Version

December 5, 2011 - 6:03 pm

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  The phenomena of figure and ground, wherein we can extract meaning from a static array of shapes by bringing a subset of those shapes or ‘spatial-relations’ into connection in our minds so that they form a familiar, recognizable pattern, is usually exemplified by a black and white silhouette such as the above. The point [...]

Reconciling Experience and Thought

November 28, 2011 - 12:21 am

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The Followers of the Democratic State

November 13, 2011 - 3:39 pm

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“People do not live in the state”  … “The state lives in the people” – Gustav Landauer . . The recipe for constructing a democratic state is as follows;

Who Am I? Quiz : How Authoritarian/Anarchist Are You?

October 29, 2011 - 11:47 pm

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S’il vous plait, … answer the following questions, do a quick review and modify your answers as necessary to maximize overall consistency, and then view your Authoritarian/Anarchist profile using the key at the end of the quiz. . 1. Do you believe the relationship between organisms and the earth’s evolving biosphere is;