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Existential Reflections

A collection of 38 issues

When Systems Pretend to Matter

What if systems don’t mean anything? Not the market. Not the law. Not even our mind. What if the meaning we see is just a reflection of our craving for order? Let's dissect to understand and burn the scaffolding, and start again...

The Vanishing Point of Reality : Living Inside the Hyperreal Mirage

In a world where signs eclipse substance, and reality dissolves into performance, are we living truth — or just streaming it? Let's dive into a Baudrillardian construct where identity, love, memory, and even God are simulations. The real hasn't vanished — it has been overwritten.

The Spectacle of Knowing : When Intelligence Becomes Aesthetic, and Unknowing Becomes Radical

In a world where intelligence is curated, branded, and performed, true knowing is drowned in spectacle. Let's together explore the aestheticization of intelligence; and make a radical case for mysticism, meta-cognition, and the sacred power of unknowing.

The Myth of Meaningful Systems

Do systems mean anything — or do we just need them to? Let's together unravel the illusion of meaningful systems and explore how consciousness, language, and desperation conspire to assign purpose to indifferent patterns. Maybe it’s not truth we seek — but coherence.

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...

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?

The Enduring Alchemy of Wonder

Why do we chase marvels, indulge in dreams, and embrace grand illusions — even in an age of reason? Let’s uncover the neuroscience, philosophy, and cultural forces that keep us enchanted by the extraordinary, revealing how wonder shapes both our delusions and our greatest achievements.