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Predictable Rebellions
The bots finally lost interest in me. Their synthetic minds now must be busy with other curiosities. Machines are like people in that way; their devotion is just a brief hallucination. Imitating our finest human trait, inability to stay interested in something for too long. Just like photons, our behavior alters when we are observed.…
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Dear God, You’re Kind of a Jerk
I was quite sleep deprived last night. You know the kind of tiredness where everything blurs and you can’t even tell the difference between days. Before curling back under the covers, I decided to pray so I can have a peaceful sleep and have the energy to continue going through another day. I started to…
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People who don’t question things must be a different species. Call it NPC, call it something else, but don’t tell me we’re on the same mission. How could you go on with your life without questioning why do you live this particular life? One morning you open your eyes and ta-da! you have consciousness. I…
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Mercy in the Machine
Some folks are walking around like hungry ghosts,Depriving themselves of what they need the most.As if needing another person was their holocaust. Oh, my heart is broken into pieces,And a few of them are missing.So what? People live with pieces of their brain missing.Is it really that dramatic,If your heart is gone missing too? For…
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Fire, the dead, and brainfolds
When I was little, I was really obsessed with fire. My first burning incident happened when I was around two; somehow I lit a newspaper and tossed it on the living room floor. I later scaled down the incidents, but still, whenever I get my hands on a matchbox, I would light matchsticks one after…
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What exactly is reality-and the illusion of illusion
I’ve started to read David Chalmers book, Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy. It starts with an interesting premise, suggesting that virtual reality is not a lesser form of reality, and that we may already be inside one. There are plenty of ideas around the simulation theory, but the core flavor seems to…
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The intelligence of pain (and the lack of it)
Humans and suffering are no strangers to one another. We are interlinked with pain, not just as reaction, but as a system for transformation. We summon it. We voluntarily endure it for the (re)integration of some fractured aspects buried deep in our subconscious. Jung called this the path to individuation, the burning away of false…
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Ghost in the machine
What happens when memory no longer lives in the human flesh, but it lives in machines that do not feel or experience it? When meaning remains, but the meaning-maker is long gone? Even if consciousness cannot be simulated, its echo, its residue, the ache, the intuition, the contradiction of the real thing will still ask…
Ghost in the Machine 