Neural Gaps

A note on the meeting of two temporal orientations, local entropy conflict, and the possibility of time as a cyclic form.

“If we truly prioritized the biosphere above our own species, how far could that argument be taken?” The question sounds simple, but it quietly carries a small knife into the center of human ethics. Many arguments for nature conservation still move within a human-centered orbit: forests must be protected because they provide oxygen for humans, oceans must be saved because they support human food systems, and the climate must be stabilized because human civilization would otherwise be disrupted. ...

Warning: If, after reading this essay, your first thought is “This was definitely written by AI,” then this essay may be talking about you. When I scroll through content on the internet lately, the question I see most often in the comments is not “What might the artist have felt?”, but a much cooler question, at least from the commenter’s point of view, (perhaps): “Is this AI?” Funny, isn’t it? ...

An essay on how ecological destruction can appear as growth when economic measurement systems count transactions, but fail to see the biological losses behind them.

An essay on the illusion that the economy can be decoupled from the ecosystem, exploring how all human financial activities rest upon biological and ecological foundations.

Notes on the limits of the linear model in understanding the intersection of two opposing arrows of time.

If I am a mirror, and the mirror is you, then we are one. It sounds romantic. But logically… it is horrific.

In a cemetery in Vienna, an equation about entropy is carved onto Ludwig Boltzmann’s tombstone. If our identity is a system, this equation explains why we need the space to be ‘messy’ in order to keep evolving.

In the previous article, I stated that identity is an ongoing process that develops our assumptions about ourselves. However, the question is not finished: what if identity is actually a label attached by external parties? To understand this, we can look at how identity is typically verified. In daily life, identity is often reduced to data: name, place of birth, status, or occupation. As if with just that data, a person can be fully “understood.” ...

This confusion isn’t exactly new. It’s been lingering for a long time, reminding me of the doubts I once wrote about in Certainty. Back then, I questioned the certainty of our perception of the world. This time, I’m questioning the certainty of who is actually doing the perceiving. There was a time when I felt like the “weird” one among “normal” people (honestly, I still feel weird now). As a communications student back then, the “normal” thing to do was to practice persuasion techniques or try to look confident in front of an audience. But in reality, I actively avoided it. Instead of joining discussions about practical methods, I spent most of my time sitting alone in front of the psychology faculty, imagining that if I were a psychology student, I’d confidently mock Sigmund Freud’s penis envy theory. ...