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Existential Reflections

A collection of 36 issues

The Ethics of Accelerationism : Amidst the Race Towards an Uncertain Future

Accelerationism questions whether rapid societal and technological progress uplifts humanity or risks unraveling it. Balancing innovation with ethics demands deliberation, equity, and ecological care. The future depends on whether we race recklessly or pause to navigate responsibly. Let's dive in..

Entropy, Enlightenment, and the Eternal Symphony of Symmetry

What if God is a state of perfect symmetry in the zeroth state of entropy, where chaos and order converge? What if creation, destruction, purpose, and enlightenment reflect our quest to align with this ultimate equilibrium?

Thought’s Harmony : From Fragments to the Zeroth Entropy

What if humanity is a harmony of individual and collective thought, where matter arises from shared consciousness? This experiment ponders thought's duality, the chaos-order tension, and the dream of perfect symmetry — a zeroth entropy state, a glimpse of the divine.

Transmutation, Mutation, and Evolution : The Symphony of Errors and the Engine of Progress

The narrative of life, whether biological or intellectual, is one of transmutation — an alchemical, iterative process where change becomes the constant and error the catalyst. In both nature and human society, the fundamental unit of action is mutation, a mechanism driven by errors in processes that propel evolution. This principle,

How Our Existence Unfolds as Contradictions?

Existence is a curious paradox, isn’t it? Here we are, suspended between the yearning for infinite possibilities and the stark finitude of our lives, caught in a web of contradictions that define our very being. We crave freedom yet cling to structure, seek connection yet guard our solitude, and

The Absurdity of Legacy : Why Do We Care About What Happens After We Die?

Legacy is a peculiar obsession. As humans, we expend vast energy, time, and emotion constructing monuments to our existence — whether those monuments are tangible, like buildings and books, or intangible, like reputation or influence. The irony, however, is glaring : we do all this knowing we will never witness the fruits

What Becomes of Us When Stripped of Our Illusions?

We live amidst illusions so deeply woven into the fabric of our lives that most of us mistake them for reality. They are comforting shrouds — myths of permanence, constructs of meaning, the false coherence of identity, the allure of progress. These illusions sustain us, individually and collectively, like fragile scaffolding

Living, a Multi-Dimensional Payoff Function

In navigating the contours of existence, I have often questioned the reductionist paradigms that frame life as a sequence of linear decisions aimed at singular, deterministic outcomes. Rather, I have come to perceive life as a multi-dimensional payoff function — a philosophical metaphor capturing the complex interplay of values, desires, and