Topic

Perception & Reality

A collection of 16 issues

The Hallucinations of GenAI : A Reflection on Reality, Perception, and the Mirage of Intelligence

It has often struck me, that in our quest to create machines that think, we may inadvertently be birthing ones that hallucinate. Hallucination, a term that conjures images of altered perceptions and fractured realities, is often whispered with caution in the realms of GenAI. What is it about this phenomenon

Anti-Knowledge : A Journey Through the Paradoxes of Knowing

In a world that celebrates knowledge as the ultimate currency, I find myself drawn instead to its inverse : anti-knowledge, the space of what is not known, and perhaps, what cannot be known. Not an empty void, anti-knowledge is instead the paradoxical space where knowing folds back on itself, revealing the

Between Stars and Dust : Embracing the Banal and the Infinite

Imperious, inscrutable, and utterly banal — life persists as if indifferent to the meanings we attempt to assign it. For as long as I’ve wandered through its corridors, I have felt both its infinite majesty and its crushing monotony. At times, the air tastes of grandeur, of some ethereal secret

The Beauty of Trust : The Unseen Fabric of Humanity, Society, and the Cosmos

There’s a moment in everyone’s life when trust breaks, shattering something within us so deep that it’s hard to breathe. The rawness of betrayal, the suffocating feeling of being let down — it stings. Yet, even in this heart-wrenching space, trust somehow clings to the edges of our

The Absurdity of the Search for Truth in an Age of Relativism

Imagine standing at the edge of an ocean, gazing at the horizon, attempting to pinpoint the exact location where the sky meets the water. The more you try, the more elusive it becomes. The harder you search, the less certain you feel of what you’re truly seeing. Now, replace

The Conspiracy of Consciousness

He often found himself immersed in quiet contemplation, staring into the abyss of human existence, seeking to unravel the complexities that defined his every thought, decision, and emotion. From his earliest days of inquiry into philosophy, neuroscience, and existentialism, he had come to recognize an unsettling truth — consciousness was the