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Philosophy

24 entries
2025 3 entries
  • Jul 7
    Essay The Mind as Semi-Solid Smoke

    This post continues the series on Socratic Thinking, turning the space-and-place lens inward to examine the mind itself. Human minds can be thought of as an imperfect place with the ability to create …

    2 min
  • Jul 6
    Essay Thinking with places

    “A farmer has to cut down trees to create space for his farmstead and fields. Yet once the farm is established it becomes an ordered world of meaning—a place—and beyond it is the forest and space.” — …

    3 min
  • Apr 29
    Essay We Need Homes in the Delta Quadrant

    Place is security, space is freedom. — Yi-Fu Tuan Starfleet Log, Delta Quadrant—Classified Briefing At the edge of the known, maps fail and instincts take over. We don’t just explore new worlds—we …

    18 min
2024 1 entry
  • Jun 12
    Essay The Arrival of Composable Knowledge

    Traversing through human history, even in the last two decades, we see a rapid increase in the accessibility of knowledge. The purpose of language, and of course all communication is to transfer a …

    3 min