by orchaeus | Dec 6, 2020 | Shared Link
There is another world near at hand; but entering it requires either a beautiful accident… or a very different aspect of mind than that we are ordinarily familiar with. Often, our world-view acts like the opposite of armor — rather than protecting us from...
by orchaeus | Dec 4, 2020 | Shared Link
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NN77egsmkXoNfYHxW/can-we-see-light∞ You do not see light. You see only those objects that emit or reflect it. Intelligence is similar, but more profound… the sources or errors… are implicit in the reflections…...
by orchaeus | Nov 27, 2020 | Shared Link
https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/the-great-flamingo-fishermen-2e2ef7823792What, exactly, »is ‘religion’ as we ‘practice’ it? This is one of the earliest and most profound of ‘the little stories’ that I was taught… by a friend...
by orchaeus | Nov 24, 2020 | Shared Link
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/the-invention-of-the-normal-person/463365/Normal is a terrible myth… a religion… within ordinary language.
by orchaeus | Nov 23, 2020 | Shared Link
One of the most important (and overlooked) root ideas fundamental to human knowledge, language, science and behavior… is relation. It’s not a bad candidate for the top of the ‘tree of identity/meaning’, but us moderns have been trained to look...
by orchaeus | Nov 20, 2020 | Shared Link
I am always interested in the integration of Relativity and its associated ideas into our models of identity and relation, a program which has largely been ignored (our ideas about identity, location, relation and so on, in language, are still Newtonian). We have...
