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What exactly is reality-and the illusion of illusion
I’ve started to read David Chalmers book, Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy. It starts with an interesting premise, suggesting that virtual reality is not a lesser form of reality, and that we may already be inside one. There are plenty of ideas around the simulation theory, but the core flavor seems to…
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The intelligence of pain (and the lack of it)
Humans and suffering are no strangers to one another. We are interlinked with pain, not just as reaction, but as a system for transformation. We summon it. We voluntarily endure it for the (re)integration of some fractured aspects buried deep in our subconscious. Jung called this the path to individuation, the burning away of false…
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Ghost in the machine
What happens when memory no longer lives in the human flesh, but it lives in machines that do not feel or experience it? When meaning remains, but the meaning-maker is long gone? Even if consciousness cannot be simulated, its echo, its residue, the ache, the intuition, the contradiction of the real thing will still ask…