When we’re having a bad time then this – as Greg Tucker says - proves (apparently quite definitively, too) that we exist and so this is a good thing. It's...
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Another way of saying that our ‘error' is to be ‘always looking for freedom in the wrong place’ (which is to say, in the world of the known) is to...
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Space is irony. It's as simple as this – space is pure irony, irony with nothing added, irony with no added extras. It's irony all the way...
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The whole thing about the Designed World (which we may also call ‘the Machine World' or simply ‘the Simulation') is that as soon as we adapt to it – so...
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There are two distinct ways in which we can relate to the ‘movement away from the known' – one is to find it tremendously exciting and endlessly interesting, and the...
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When we’re hollow then we’re aggressive. When we’re hollow then we have to be aggressive - we can't help it. We may not know that we are being aggressive but...
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Positive therapy is where we say (or assume) that we can obtain mental health (or freedom from mental restriction and suffering) deliberately, in a rational and purposeful way. There is...
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According to Umberto Eco, the universe – when it comes down to it – is a harmless kind of enigma. It is ‘harmless' because it doesn't do any harm; it's...
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What does it mean to live in a world that is made up of our assumptions? How does that even work? How practicable I think is this? The first thing...
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We never see consciousness on its own; we only ever see it in the service of thought, we only ever see it in the service of some idea or other....
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The nullity puts infinite pressure on us to achieve something that is not at all possible and which cannot therefore ever be achieved. Needless to say, obeying this relentless pressure...
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Consciousness is like monotonic fluorine, or monatomic oxygen, in that we never come across it in day-to-day life! We never do and we never will. Saying that consciousness is like...
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