I wish I could read what y'all are writing, but when I try it feels like trying to wear old clothes that aren't mine anymore. I'm interested, but it seems like not the right time. Even my own thoughts are somehow on hold, like I'm watching a chess game and losing interest between turns. I feel like I've made a lot of progress with some basic ideas ( Read more... )

Let me start by seeing if I can clarify the meaning of the word understanding, so that we can come to an understanding about our understanding of the meaning of meaning. (Don’t worry, it’s not all going to be like this… it gets worse).
understandO.E. understandan “comprehend, grasp the idea of,” probably lit. “stand in the midst ( Read more... )

is that sooner or later you end up proving that 'you' don't 'really' exist ( Read more... )

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In a dream I was looking at some bad printed greyscale images that a guy handed me and I was explaining to him how the white lines are a printer artifact, like a moire pattern, and I could see subtle rectilinear moire patterns (not like this really) in the halftone screen.


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crossposted to abstractthought

A stupid question perhaps, but only because the term can be applied to literally any pattern we can recognize, subjectively or objectively. Even chaos is a but a kind of order. Order itself however, can be seen as a category in need of no larger context . In consideration of it's universality, it's curious that we can discuss it ( Read more... )

I was interested in the idea that 'war drives technological innovation'. It certainly drives military improvements, and those can sometimes carry over in civilian life but I think that it's a mistake to assume that violence or even competition itself is beneficial to humanity as a whole in any sense, particularly going forward. Competition is great ( Read more... )

Having had some encounters with vertigo recently, I've been contemplating dizziness and it's role in human life. It seems like a weird thing to me. Why do we need to become incapacitated and nauseous when we move in circles? What does it even mean to have a sense of overly-repetitious circular movement?

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