There is a kind of psychic economizing in the tension we call “self.” If we could dissect it into its bookends, we’d find it spanning…
Author: CognoVortex
CognVortex’s “Script of Satisfaction”: Repeating the Self in Deleuze’s Chaotic Difference
If Difference and Repetition serves to expose the submerged currents that resist identification or replication, CognVortex’s script-as-reward system shapes the self as an actor persistently…
The Stillness Before Perception
Meditation is not the practice of clearing the mind but of witnessing the machinery within it—the apparatus of perception turning on its axis. To sit…
Honesty’s Quiet Abyss: The Mild Insecurity
Honesty, often heralded as virtue’s anchor, is paradoxically tied to a persistent sense of uncertainty—not as a flaw but as its essence. True honesty does…
Reality as a Wardrobe for IntentionsReality as a Wardrobe for Intentions
Reality is where all our declared plans go to change outfits. To declare a plan is to dress it in a particular costume, armed with…
Inverted Monsters and the Machinery of Behavior: Nietzsche’s Abyss, Turned Inside Out
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an…
The Birth of Little Me, in a Pause
The “little me” lives solely as the observer in suspension, realizing itself in a delicate momentary stillness. When action arises too quickly, it speaks only…
Axioms of the Gap: The Gap as Unit and Frame
The mind’s implicit physics lives in the structure of the gap. In perception, gaps mark the places where thoughts and sequences leave the terrain of…
A Kind of Post-Cognitive Voodoo: On The Doll of Self
We never get to the other side of cognition. At best we deduce a pre-cognitive view by way of post-cognitive representations. Human “realism” is a…
Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition: The Mechanics of Becoming
In Difference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze presents a radical departure from traditional Western philosophy by tackling two central, overlooked forces in philosophy—difference and repetition. Traditionally,…