by orchaeus | Aug 11, 2020 | Status Update
Someone in the newsfeed posted the following statement: “To allow another to frame reality for you is to surrender cognitive sovereignty.” Two problems here: 1. This statement is self-violating, because it frames reality. So if you agree, your sovereignty...
by orchaeus | Aug 11, 2020 | Status Update
All knowledge is necessarily the result not of understanding, but the evaluation of what I will call ‘limit-cases’ where, given the framework we applied, excluding most of everything, especially minds… the method was able to distinguish and, in some...
by orchaeus | Aug 11, 2020 | Status Update
There’s no such thing as other people. All other people are specific people. And they change, if we are together. Just as we do. There are no other people. It’s an idea that inclines us to think about what is »absent, as if it were both present »and known!...
by orchaeus | Aug 11, 2020 | Status Update
Who or ‘what’ others are is incomplete… and completed only by our participation with them. Or not. So that if I think I know the skill or value of some other person, or people in general… I am throwing away most of the library of our abilities...
by orchaeus | Aug 9, 2020 | Status Update
Little words matter. Time, for example, and how we metaphy it. Long or short? Does time have »length? Is it like a string or ruler? What if it were instead conceived of as shallow or deep? Cursory or meaningful? With something as »central to our experience as time...
by orchaeus | Aug 9, 2020 | Status Update
Everything went inside-out. So that forwards was backwards. And Time, itself, inverted. So that the Future, became the Past. But they had no stories of this. And so, though they felt the change. They couldn’t attend it. The Sun made a kind of Darkness, then. And...
