Any construct, any system, when it is used allowed to run freely on its own terms, will always do the very same thing - it will expand rapidly until it has taken up all the available space. It will blow...
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Paradox (or self-contradiction) is present, in seed form, in even the simplest of machines, in even the most basic of tools. There is paradoxicality even in machines as simple as a plough or water wheel. It may not be in...
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When we take two steps forward in virtual space (which is to say, in the Mind-Created Virtual Reality) this equals two steps backwards. It's not that we take two steps in one direction and then two steps in the opposite...
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There are two ways to be ‘orientated’ in this world - we can be orientated towards <self> or we can be orientated towards <other>. ‘Other’ doesn't just mean other people, it means whatever isn't the self, whatever it is that...
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We can't change ourselves, no matter how dogged we might be in our attempts to do so. The ego or self can't change itself any more than a leopard can it spots - it can never cover them up, it...
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The less perspective we have the more stuck we are in the World of Descriptions, the more contained we are within the Formal Domain that we ourselves have created. The less perspective we have the more controlled we are by...
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The worlds we create for ourselves with our thinking are unreal worlds. They have no depth to them; they are wholly superficial. However grand. however splendid it all might seem (and it can seem very grand, very imposing, very splendid)...
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The knowledge needed to play a game is the same thing as that game; the information that we need to have in order to operate within the simulation is that simulation. Whatever comes out of the system is that very...
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To be conscious of thought is to see through it, but whoever sees through thought? When does this ever happen? Far from ‘seeing through thought’ we’re ‘enclosed within it’ - we only go where thought says we should go, we...
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The self can only exist within an environment that validates it, an environment that supports and facilitates it. Outside of this special environment, there can be no self. The self or ego is a function of this environment therefore -...
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There is only one way for things to be in the Artificial World and that is the way that they have been specified as being, the way that they have been officially stated as being. This couldn't be any other...
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The world we have been given (and within which we are required to live our lives) is absurdly narrow, absurdly rigid, absurdly lacking in any actual content. It's a simulated world, in other words, rather than being ‘the actual real...
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Eric Berne makes the argument that the reason we play games is to avoid unstructured time. ‘Games’ and ‘pastimes’ are how we get through that space that exists between 'waking up in the morning' and 'going back to sleep last...
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The Equilibrium World – which is, we might say, ‘a world in which everything has been standardized’ - is a place of forgetting. We forget that there is (or ever was) anything else apart from the Equilibrium World and we...
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Whenever we buy into some version of reality that excludes all other versions then what we end up with is the Nullity, and this turns out to be very bad news for us. This turns out to be the worst...
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