It is said that we live in the ‘information age’. Everything these days is about information – the transmission of information, the processing of information, the packaging of information, the...
What ‘a rule’? How do rules work? What they do? How do rules get to be rules? These are all questions that we are very unlikely to ask ourselves during...
When we obey the rules we unfailingly get nullified. This is always the way – it couldn't possibly be any other way. Obeying the rules equals falling into the nullification...
The type of communication we are exposed to every day is a degraded currency. It has been degraded to the point at which it is no longer communication at all...
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,...
When we read information in the way that it is meant to be read, in the way that it has been designed to be read, then we become unconscious!
Alternatively, we...
We see everything back-to-front. One way of getting at this is to look at the way we regard causality, and ascribe everything to some kind of causal vector. Alan Watts...
This world in which we live is a place of compulsory forgetting. Forgetting is the law, forgetting is the rule which we are compelled at every step to obey…
It doesn’t...
The movement towards equilibrium is not movement at all – it is ‘movement towards non-movement’. The movement towards the equilibrium state is a ‘hastening towards the state of staying still’. ...
All sorts of possibilities are dangled in front of our noses the whole time, but none of them will lead us out of the equilibrium state. The only possibilities that...
All of the neurotic conditions, without any exception, can be understood by studying the properties of formal systems and applying what we learn to the everyday rational mind. This sounds...
Every time we create a formal system, however limited or simplistic it may be, that formal system – strange as may sound – becomes a ‘version’ of reality, an ‘analogue’...