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Perception & Reality

A collection of 20 issues

The Eternal Loop of Leverage in Finance

Every financial innovation — whether banks, derivatives, fintech, or DeFi — is just leverage repackaged. The core remains : amplifying returns by using more than one’s own capital. This essay unveils the eternal cycle of leverage, its risks, and its philosophical depth. Let's dive-in ...

The Price of Time : A Personal Discourse on Valuing Life’s Most Fleeting Currency

In the relentless churn of daily obligations, demands, and the omnipresent noise of modern existence, I have come to one nagging question: What is the worth of my time? Time — this currency no bank vault can hold, no ledger can account for, and no contract can truly secure. Perhaps the

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

The Synthetic Reality : Are GenAI’s Hallucinations a Mirror of Our Collective Unconscious?

Every so often, I find myself pondering a simple yet profoundly unsettling question : What is reality? Traditionally, we might define it as a shared, objective world, one that is perceived through our senses and verified by consensus. But when I turn to the world of Generative AI (GenAI), this clean

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