Philosophy / Metaphysics

This page contains some pretty deep posts on the age-old questions. Although it’s all free to read, please keep in mind that all work is copyrighted.


Unity of Knowledge

Humanity will not arrive at a Grand Unified Theory which describes the origins and processes of the cosmos until it unifies all disciplines, all forms of knowing. Science attempts to explain the universe on its own terms and exclude other, nonscientific types of explanations in its Grand Unified Theories. Yet a comprehensive and satisfactory Grand […]

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Human, in Time

The ability to choose is predicated on the existence of time. Without time, there is no need, and no ability, to choose anything because everything stays the same. Time only exists to measure change. Time exists to allow me to jump back into a state of changelessness, in which there is no suffering. I choose, […]

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The Chains of Memory

Most would consider our consciousness as humans to be impossible without the existence of memory.  Surely, intelligence would not be possible without it.  Yet memory has a downside.  Memory chains us to what was, and conditions our present.  What we struggle to be free of are memories.

The very existence of memory is a symptom of […]

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The Dangers of Superior Intelligence

People wonder whether Artificial Intelligence or alien intelligences superior to our own will attempt to exploit or dominate us. Intelligence is power, and our own use and misuse of this power may be illustrative. We regard ourselves as superior to all other life forms which we know. Regarding these life forms, we either eradicate them […]

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Everyday Rescue from the Everyday

A lot of us (myself included) have spent a much time looking up to the heavens and waiting for the extraterrestrial object, maybe watching a movie or TV series on UFO’s, reading books on UAP phenomenon. I’ve wished for contact, hoped for rescue, both for myself and for humanity, by a superintelligent, overly wise big […]

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The Black Swan

A lot of the arguments against the existence of God center around what Freud called wish fulfillment, the idea that we want something – relief from suffering, the reward of an afterlife – to be true.  Therefore, we imagine it to be true.  We invent a God.

One doesn’t have to look far back into history […]

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