The Time I Thought I Was Living
We think we are living in time. But what if time is living through us – quietly erasing versions of us, reshaping our past, and ending moments we never knew were our last? Let's explore...
Topic
Consciousness & Self-Identity
A collection of 38 issues
The Vectorized Mind : Memory, Thought, and Creativity in High Dimensions
Is our memory a biological search engine, powered by high-dimensional "data embeddings"? Let's Explore how thought and creativity arise from neural vectors. Are we just pattern matchers, or something far more profound? Let's dive-in...
Are We All Just Narrators of Our Own Nonexistent Stories?
What if our life isn’t a story – but a narration stitched by a mind afraid of silence? Perhaps the self we defend never truly existed. Let's reflect together and understand whether we are beings who live… or merely narrators of our own beautiful fictions.
Still Want to Take Life Seriously?
In a universe where we're less than a blink in time — where stars won't notice our silence or our screams — what’s the point of it all? And yet… we create, we ache, we love. This is not despair. This is defiance. Read on, if you’ve ever questioned your place in it all...
Freedom in the Hands That Hold Invisible Strings
What if the strings that guide you aren’t chains, but the source of your deepest rhythm? Let's trace the illusion of free will, the seduction of control, and the quiet strength found in embracing the hands that move us unseen...
The Cost of Cognition : The Energy, Capital, and Ethics of Running Synthetic Minds
We did not simply create minds; we created hunger, thirst, and debt in the fabric of existence itself. The question is no longer whether machines can think, but whether we can afford their thinking. Isn't it? Let's dive in...
The Society of False Selves
What if your true self is just another mask? In a world where curated identities thrive and authenticity becomes a performance, we’re left questioning if there’s anything real beneath the facade. Let's dive into this exploration of hyperreality, alienation, and redemption to confront the void...
Between Becoming and Unbecoming : Life's Three Movements
Life unfolds as a cyclic symphony — first we learn, then we become, and finally, we unbecome. In shedding all that we are not, we uncover what we truly are. Let’s explore the neuroscience, philosophy, and poetry of these arcs…
Life, a Subset of Non-Life : The Absurdity of Consciousness
What if life isn’t the opposite of death, but a strange subset of non-life — consciousness just matter’s prank on itself? Let's dive into the absurdity of awareness, emergence, and meaning, where the universe doesn’t care — and yet, we persist...
A Reflective Journey Through Time, Entropy, and Causality
Time isn’t what it seems. Physics suggests past, present, and future exist simultaneously, yet we experience a relentless flow. Entropy fuels this illusion, causality anchors reality, and quantum uncertainty blurs fate. Do we shape time, or are we mere travelers in a fixed continuum?