In a Finite Game everything is always strictly ‘black and white’ - you're either with us or against us, you’re either part of the solution, or you’re part of the problem, etc., etc. This is its limitation, of course -...
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There is something downright misleading about the term ‘artificial intelligence’ – the term is misleading because whilst what we’re talking about here might be artificial, it has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence. No one is really trying to argue...
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There are only the two things in life, we could say - there is the ‘unobserved reality’ (which is pure randomness, pure spontaneity), and there is the observed reality, the known reality, which is the reality that has been established...
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Whenever a bunch of people get together and agree between themselves what life is or ought to be then this is where life ends, this is where life ceases. Instead, there's only conformity to the established order, there is only...
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It is in the nature of reality to ‘pretend to be what it isn't’ (or to 'hide its true nature from us’) says Heraclitus. Stuff isn't straightforward in the way we always think it is, in other words. Things -...
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The reason for us to be in Copying/Heteronomous Mode (as opposed to Creative/Autonomous Mode) is always the same - fear. Fear is what is behind this kind of business. Fear causes us to 'live the script'. Fear causes us to...
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The Holographic or Anaxagorean Paradigm (if we want to experiment with looking at things in this way) shows us that nothing exists apart from the Whole. If ‘every little part contains the Whole’ then of course nothing can exist apart...
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‘Choices’ and ‘doing’ are the same thing - making choices is ‘a doing’ - it is, in other words, the unfolding of a plan, the acting out or copying of a mental picture. This may not sound like a particularly controversial...
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In order to understand finite games all we need to do is imagine ‘a Mover who moves but is not in turn moved, ‘an Influencer who is never influenced’. To be the ‘Unmoved Mover’ is the goal of all finite...
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If we are to have any insight at all into what mental health really is then we have to learn to see everything backwards. Only this isn't quite true because it's not that we have to ‘learn’ to see things...
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We can either carry on copying (i.e., carry on reading from the script that has been conveniently provided for us) or we can ‘become aware of what is actually going on’, but - crucially - we can't do both. We...
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We are all – it could be said - taking part in a Great Experiment - the crucial point about this experiment being that we don’t realize that it’s going on. This might be called ‘an experiment unconsciousness’, therefore. The...
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If we want to live in a world that is made up of things, a world that is made up of ‘nameable bits’, then we have to live within the remit of Polarity. When we do this we get to...
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Everything the ego does it does unwillingly. Even when the ego (or ‘Mind-Created Sense of Self’) enthusiastically pursues its goals (and makes a big song and dance about how great this is) it is doing so unwillingly - it's ‘unwilling’...
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We could say that there are ‘two types of people in the world’ - those who see that the game is empty, and those who do not see this. This isn’t to say that we can’t transition from one group...
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What kind of possibilities are there for the Extrinsic Self as it goes about its business in the world of Definite Appearances - which is the only world it can ever know, the only world it can have ever have...
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Reality isn't Buddhist, or Christian, or Muslim, or anything like that - reality is simply reality and it has nothing to do with whatever ideas we might have about it (and we always do have lots of ideas about it)....
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As I normally am, I can only ever see the world in terms of myself and this - of course - is something of an obstacle. Or rather it's not just ‘a bit of an obstacle’, it's an absolute one....
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