There are only two things in the world - either bias or non-bias, and of these two things only ‘non-bias’ is real. Bias isn't real because, as Heraclitus says, ‘the road up is the road down’. Every bias contains its...
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The Extrinsic Self - which is to say, ‘the self which is based entirely on rules’ - and the State of Openness are completely incompatible with each other. Or rather, the Extrinsic Self is incompatible with Openness, since Openness doesn't...
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When we’re adapted to the Machine World then everything is about productivity. Productivity, productivity, productivity - that's all we ever care about! Productivity is our god and we are all obliged to worship it accordingly; we ‘justify our existence’ in...
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Symmetry - in a psychological sense - means that ‘Everything is allowed to be true, but that nothing actually is’. Everything is permitted and nothing is true. Symmetry - in both the psychological and the cosmological sense of the term...
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The information collapse that gives rise to the physical universe may be spoken of as a break in the underlying symmetry of the situation and it may also be seen in terms of an inversion. A symmetry break is where...
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We tend to think that 'not existing' is (or would be) an extraordinarily bad thing and be very averse to the prospect on this account but this is only because of our limited way of seeing things! Actually, not existing...
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