Philosophy

It is said that the age of philosophers has been over for some time. Whether it was with Heidegger, Wittgenstein, etc., the claim is that no philosophers since them have created any fundamental changes in Western philosophy. Others say that philosophy is undergoing a golden age with authors like Badiou…

As we enter the Gemini (Mercury, Gemini, Apollo) phase of XR/spatial computing, I thought it would worthwhile to revisit the philosophy and goals of Neurologically True Reality (NTR), and why this has been a north star goal for me (and others I have worked with over the years). …

It turns out that the opposite of nihilism is absurdity. — Almost two years ago, I wrote a story about nihilist skin care. My theory was this: nothing matters, and when I put this into practice, said fuck it and stopped putting shit on my face, my skin suddenly improved. This was a revelation, and I wanted to tell everyone that…

I wasn’t a big fan of studying philosophical texts up until a few years back. I started delving into this realm, and especially, the realm where physics associates with philosophy, and absolutely fell in love with it. As a dynamic and enigmatic realm of human understanding, philosophy carries an innate…

A review of Philip Kitcher’s What’s the Use of Philosophy? It is said that the very first Western philosopher was Thales of Miletus, who lived from around 620 to 546 BCE. That is about 150 years before Socrates, and 200 years before Plato. His greatest claim to fame is his conjecture that “all is water,” which is important because it…

Then, everything else will never be the same. The way we see colours, the way we see things around and, the way we approach our sensations and truth, will all change into things which, evidently, will be a lot more better and challenging to our being. “ All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream…” — Edgar Allan Poe. And, who knows if…

She was a pale Lily rose Whom I smoked with love, Whose ashes fell to the Ground like verses of poems, But whose smoke danced and flew Towards the open doors of heavens. —she’s my intoxication.

You contain many lifetimes, many time periods, many perspectives. — At the most expansive levels of perspective, we each draw from every human life. Every life is available to you. Your consciousness ‘contains’ a library of lives. This is another way of saying that, unlike our physical bodies, consciousness is non-physical and timeless, And, as such, neither time nor space…

When proof is visible, we must make politicians act — On the morning of June 22nd, 1969, a slick of oil floating atop a notoriously polluted Ohio river called the Cuyahoga, burst into flames and burned for half an hour. In the end the blaze was extinguished and caused about $50,000 in damage. …