Puppet Masters
The Puppeteer Virus: A Multidimensional Framework for Understanding Behavioural Manipulation and Social Contagion Abstract This article introduces the concept of the puppeteer virus, a metaphorical framework that explores how various…
Uncle Enzo’s Greatest Hits
Nearly a century ago on the Pianura Padana bordered by the Alps to the north and the Apennine Mountains arguably the greatest genius of a new artform set up his…
Eternal Cycles
Life is journey that we share, individually, yet isolated in our own consciousness, beautifully, or terribly, structured by a series of cycles that shape, form and maybe enrich our experiences.…
Einstein Unveiled
So it turned out that I wasn't smarter than Einstein after all. Never said I was. Honest. The equation in the illustration is actually something different as a placeholder until…
Functional Empiricism IV: Psychological Empiricism and the Ethics of Open-Minded Testing
In psychological empiricism—as in all forms of functional empiricism—our objective is not to construct or defend a singular, monolithic model of truth. Rather, we aspire to develop, maintain, and empirically…
Jean-Jacques Beineix – Diva
Insanely gorgeous. Fatally Flawed. Intense. Why am I looking at this like that? Conceited, I’ll concede, but totally stunning. Jean-Jacques Beineix’s masterpiece digs into the filth and the pathos while…
Functional Empiricism III: The Power of Open-Mindedness Through Empirical Testing
From the first time our ape descended ancestors were banging the rocks together to the moment we created our possible silicon based replacements, humanity’s trajectory has been one of shaping…
The Last Million
Imagine you looked at a series of steps in an electoral campaign and you could see an emerging structure of pattern interrupts in debate; fractionation; recursive looping through dominance-focused social…
So how do you think?
Qualia is the feeling of rushing wind on our faces that evoke uncontrollable laughter, the visceral sense from twisting and turning on winding, sunlit road. Unfiltered openness to experience enhances…
Intelligence, Execution and The Monkey Brain
I’ve always been fascinated by thought – human thought; monkey thought; group thought; subconcious processes; dream thought; machine thought; metaphorical analogs of thought—by the different paths our minds take to…