According to Umberto Eco, the universe – when it comes down to it – is a harmless kind of enigma. It is ‘harmless' because it doesn't do any harm; it's...
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In order for us to 'tune into the world', and thus successfully interact with it, it is first necessary for us to adopt a narrow or limited understanding of reality...
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Saying that reality is ‘uncertain’ makes it sound (to the everyday mind) as if we’re claiming there to be a lack or deficiency in our knowledge, a lack or deficiency...
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Just as soon as we start getting blasé about life – just as soon as we start to feel that it is a known quantity, a known thing – we...
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What we very rarely realize is that there are two worlds, not just the one, and that these two worlds are mutually exclusive. We could talk about this in terms...
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Logic contains a flaw, the system of thought contains a flaw, the determinate universe contains a flaw. Only it’s not really a flaw because there’s no such thing as logic,...
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The universe is, at root, a surd. Not ab-surd, but a surd. A surd is a number that stands alone, a number that cannot be simplified any further, a number...
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The drama that is forever unfolding in this world is not what we think it is. We might think that there are lots and lots of things going on, lots...
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To say that ‘everything is information’ has a nice ring to it and there is something very appealing about the idea, but at the same time there might be a...
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We live in an alogical universe. This isn’t the same as ‘an illogical universe’ which would be a universe that disobeys the rules of logic – in the Alogical Universe...
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We don’t tend to think very deeply about what the word spontaneity actually means, what it actually implies. We know that a spontaneous process is a process that happens by...
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The dimensions of space and time are, as Wei Wu Wei says, responsible for bringing seriality into the picture. If we think about this in terms of information, this becomes...
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