“Hell is other people.” — Jean-Paul Sartre To perceive is to be perceived—an irony not lost on those who would prefer to feel autonomous, self-contained,…
Emerson’s filtered Self: The Great Accomplishment of Inner Authority
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson A perception…
A Paradox on the Banks of Becoming
Heraclitus’ insight that “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man” lays…
Loving Our Own Want: A Paradox of Fate
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” — Carl Rogers In the wisdom of Rogers…
The Candle of Clarity: The Last Religion
[Human created passage, “Seed”:] Advances in communication networking have surpassed the ability of the social hierarchy to control its message. Religion objects to its own…
The Lie That Knows It Lies: Machine Logic and the Notion of Self
“I am a machine and it is my function to lie to myself,” stated, does not confess but clarifies: in a moment of lucidity, a…
The Two Poles of Self: Confidence as Credit, Effort as Cost: Parallels to Deleuze
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…
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…