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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It's impossible to be in Rational / Purposeful Mode and yet at the same time be 'in reality'. That just can't be done. When we think about things then we're not in the real world, and when we deliberately act...
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A rough and ready way of summarising the ‘message’ of Daoism might be to say that ‘interfering never does anyone any good’. There's no great poetry in putting it like this it's true, but it is nevertheless accurate enough. If...
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The conditioned self is ‘the bad thing that has already happened to us without us realising that it has’. It’s a disaster that has befallen us which we don’t see as a disaster. But why is the conditioned self ‘a...
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