The following is from a series of exchanges between me and Gregory Desilet. Gregory and I have been writing back and forth for over a dozen years or so. I have placed some of my letters to him under the letters section of this website, but this recent exchange necessitates seeing both sides. We had […]
So I did not find the Unidentified program’s narrative that compelling at first because I think it paints a few clueless officials and their pop culture mascot as heroes in a movement that is in my opinion way over their heads or understanding. Or what little they know is classified, so they are pushing on
This turned into quite a great discussion in my opinion. We were a little uncertain how to begin. We discuss beginning with the question “What is Science?”, which I know made me a little overwhelmed with how to tackle such a broad topic. So I sound a bit nervous or excited at the beginning. I
The problem with traditional logic and a logical approach to AI is that logic is inherently reductive. This was a theme in postmodern philosophy and the connectionism movement in AI research. Basically we don’t really make decisions through logic but through contextual mediation. (see Jeremy Campbell’s Impossible Machine and Paul Cilliers’ Complexity and Postmodernism). All
(extracted from a conversation with Gregory Desilet): People are funny. They seem to evaluate more on surface language than what is actually being communicated. Deleuze gives a bunch of fancy materialist terms to his mysticism and all the atheistic academics thinks it is great. Well not everyone. But everyone has their own metaphysics and the
A couple of my favorite contemporary thinkers, Alexander Galloway and Rocco Gangle both wrote books on Laruelle and he keeps coming up in recent discourse, so I thought I would take a look. Galloway frames Laruelle within his digital/analog motif which is a deep interest of mine. Laruelle seems like the end of the line
Hello. My name is Adam Pogioli. I am a local philosopher and health counselor. You can read my work on the philosophy and politics of science at creativecoherence.co. I was asked to say something here about the next generation wireless technology we are installing around the city. I assume this is only being allowed to happen
Are we seeing the end of liberal society? Or the end of the illusion of it? One can only hope that both camps of dogmatic liberals, that is, both the new Left liberals angry at society and the classical liberals angry at the Left and government, will continue to be seen more and more as
The Taoists have a saying, basically that we use our mind and heart backwards. We sense with our heart which is riddled with the biases of personal emotion, and let our mind guide us, which cannot see past its own perspectives. Enlightenment is the reversal that happens when our little shell cracks enough to let
I sent the following to exopolitical writer Michael Salla after an exchange I had with UFO whistleblower Corey Goode. The exchange with Corey was prompted by his excusing his copyrighting of certain terms related to his narrative and my polite suggestions he rethink his approach. Salla and I had had an exchange awhile back when
