Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies, Here we are again, perched at the edge of the abyss, squinting into the darkness and wondering whether to leap, to peer, get pissed, or to simply scream. Because, dearly beloved, some of us have done something curious: we have become too conscious. The trouble isn’t thatContinue reading “A Zappean Scream into the Abyss”
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Ruminations on humanity’s greatest achievement
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies The Bot Knows Best? So, what’s humanity’s greatest achievement? I asked ChatGPT 4. And because I’m cruel, I made it choose just one. “If confined to one, the scientific method stands as humanity’s greatest achievement.It is the foundation for nearly every other major advancement, space exploration, medicine,Continue reading “Ruminations on humanity’s greatest achievement”
Ruminations on Truth, Reality and Other Carefully Managed Illusions
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies What Even Is the Truth? I’ve been ruminating about the truth again. Ok, ok I know that might not be the most productive use of my time but that’s the price you pay if you have a deranged mind. Not “your truth” or “my truth” or evenContinue reading “Ruminations on Truth, Reality and Other Carefully Managed Illusions”
Ruminations on the unravelling of coherence
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies What does it mean to be coherent, and does it still matter? Coherence is the alignment of thought, speech, and action—a consistency of principle over time. Paired with articulate expression, it becomes clarity of voice. In our age of noise and narrative drift, speaking clearly from aContinue reading “Ruminations on the unravelling of coherence”
Ruminations on empathy
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies, One of my readers sent me the featured quotes. My visceral response was to demonise Musk and identify with Hannah Arendt—but then I started to ruminate, as I do. Is empathy the most essential feature of a successful society? The empathy quote is widely (but wrongly) attributedContinue reading “Ruminations on empathy”
Further Ruminations on the Meaning of Life
Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies Let’s talk about the meaning of life again. Not the Monty Python version, although it might be closer to the truth than most philosophical treatises. This profound question has baffled sages, mystics, and drunkards at 3 AM for centuries. So, naturally, who better to tackle it than aContinue reading “Further Ruminations on the Meaning of Life”
Ruminations on how many years you have left.
Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies How many years do you have left? More importantly how many good years do you have left? To explore this let’s start with the good news first. If your objective is to live a long life then you are living in the best possible time. The interactive time-lapseContinue reading “Ruminations on how many years you have left.”
Ruminations on a confabulated mind
Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies How much are we truly anchored in objective reality? Do you live in the real world? Objective reality refers to the existence of things, events, and phenomena independent of individual perceptions, opinions, and interpretations. It is the idea that certain aspects of the world exist objectively, regardless ofContinue reading “Ruminations on a confabulated mind”
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