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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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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 