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soulcruzer
soulcruzerNov 4, 2026
The Archetype Is Not Your Friend
On the dangerous hospitality of the unconscious One of the curious things about inventing a character is that, if you spend enough time with him, he begins to surprise you. You give him a name, a few distinguishing habits, perhaps a particular way of speaking. You imagine how he might respond to certain situations, what...
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ArchetypesCarl Jung
Artieficr
ArtieficrNov 3, 2026
We are MASSIVE!
It takes time to understand how photons don't have a period of time called existence (pun intended). From their perspective "life" is a single frozen instant: they get emitted from the source and absorbed by an object they hit at the same moment. What does it tell us about ourselves?
scienceshowerthoughts
soulcruzer
soulcruzerNov 2, 2026
Unless Your Past Perishes
When memory becomes a prison Somewhere in the Textual Underground, there is a version of me who still believes things I no longer believe. He’s there in an old note, several years old, speaking with the peculiar confidence of someone who hasn’t yet encountered the experiences that will eventually change his mind. He has his...
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identitymemory
Artieficr
ArtieficrNov 2, 2026
Thoughts that are not about rocks
I was building a gabion fence with my dad recently. And, as it often happens during monotonous work, random thoughts were popping up in my head. They are about rocks, but actually... not really.
philosophyshowerthoughts
Artieficr
ArtieficrNov 1, 2026
Oh, to be seen. What is joy without a witness?
We're social creatures who long to be noticed. But can a happy moment be complete if no one else is there to share it with? A few thoughts on solitude, art and the need for recognition.
indiewebart
soulcruzer
soulcruzerOct 31, 2026
The Fox, the Water, and the Unfinished World
A philosophical dialogue between Clay Lowe and Mudtown Lion Characters Clay Lowe: A philosophical correspondent and wandering essayist, inclined to believe that the universe is more interesting than any explanation of it. Mudtown Lion: A dishevelled metaphysical detective, collector of suspicious coincidences, and occasional troublemaker in the court of established reality. The café was almost...
creativityexistentialism
soulcruzer
soulcruzerOct 30, 2026
The weblog might be one of philosophy’s open-air …
The weblog might be one of philosophy’s open-air homes. The Socrates I return to isn’t standing behind a lectern. He’s in the marketplace, stopping people who were trying to get somewhere else. In the Phaedrus, he walks out beyond the city walls and sits with another person beside the Ilissus, under a plane tree, letting...
bloggingopen web
soulcruzer
soulcruzerOct 29, 2026
Does the Whirlpool Know It’s a Whirlpool?
The church bells were ringing as I walked into Ludlow. Market traders were putting the finishing touches to their stalls, the morning had a chill to it, and I stopped to record the sound. For a moment, listening brought me fully into the place. Returning to that moment now, I find a question waiting inside...
Attentionconsciousness
Pablo Murad
Pablo MuradOct 29, 2026
Maxims: fifteen years of reading, shared
For about fifteen years, whenever a sentence in a book stopped me, I wrote it down. The pile kept growing, and this year I finally sat down and put it in order. It became a small book called Maxims, and I'd like to share it. It's free, like everything I do outside of work.
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soulcruzer
soulcruzerOct 29, 2026
This morning, between sets at the gym, I …
This morning, between sets at the gym, I started designing a philosophical game. I was catching my breath and wondering about an existential text adventure in Twine. Something slightly surreal, with unreliable narrators and doors you’d have good reason to leave shut. I pulled out my phone, opened a conversation with my AI thinking partner,...
AIexistentialism
Pablo Murad
Pablo MuradOct 28, 2026
Power doesn't love you back
From Plato’s ring of Gyges to Hume, Madison, Orwell and Arendt, the greatest minds in history warned us not to trust power. So why do we keep printing politicians’ faces on T-shirts? An essay on governments, idols and Brazil’s endless wait for a savior.
politicsphilosophy
Liberalism.org
Liberalism.orgOct 28, 2026
John Locke and the Climate Crisis
The power of “enough and as good” in the age of climate change
environmental studiesimmigration
soulcruzer
soulcruzerOct 26, 2026
I keep returning to the idea that the …
I keep returning to the idea that the future of AI is more about intelligence emerging through our relationship with them more so than them becoming our super-intelligent overlords I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, particularly through my own experience of using AI as a thinking and creative partner. The most valuable thing...
Artificial Intelligencecreativity
soulcruzer
soulcruzerOct 26, 2026
The Art of Becoming Human (and Beyond)
Field Notes on Existential Posthumanism — Part One For much of my life, I’ve been trying to find myself. Not in the dramatic sense of disappearing into the wilderness for forty days and returning with a beard, a walking stick, and the secrets of the universe. Although, I confess, the idea has its attractions. My...
Artificial Intelligenceconsciousness
soulcruzer
soulcruzerOct 24, 2026
Do I Have to Understand the Universe Before I Can Live in It?
On Philip K. Dick, runaway explanations, and the peculiar freedom of going outside There is a moment in Philip K. Dick’s VALIS when Horselover Fat entertains the possibility that the creator of the universe is insane. It’s a wonderfully disturbing proposition. What if the universe isn’t merely indifferent to our existence? What if the apparent...
consciousnessidentity
soulcruzer
soulcruzerOct 23, 2026
When Intelligence Is No Longer the Scarce Resource
On AI, vision, curiosity, and the freedom to explore I came across a short Instagram clip this morning featuring Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI, making an observation that stopped me in my tracks. Intelligence, he argues, is becoming abundant. For most of human history, intelligence has been one of the great bottlenecks of progress....
Alexandr Wangambition
soulcruzer
soulcruzerOct 22, 2026
I pinched a sentence from Francesca Ferrando’s The …
I pinched a sentence from Francesca Ferrando’s The Art of Being Posthuman: Life is a journey, and we are the wanderers: anything can happen, and eventually does. I like the mischief in that last clause. You think you’ve seen everything? Just you wait. But it’s the word wanderers that keeps me here. I can travel...
AIChange
soulcruzer
soulcruzerOct 21, 2026
The Runaway Horse and the Evolution of the Self
On Montaigne, idleness, writing, and the strange business of encountering our former selves I’ve been reading Montaigne’s essay Of Idleness, and I’ve found myself rather taken with his description of what happens when he gives his mind permission to wander. Having withdrawn from public affairs, Montaigne imagines that his mind, freed from the demands of...
consciousnessidentity
soulcruzer
soulcruzerOct 20, 2026
The Edge of Experience Is Not the Edge of Reality
On limiting beliefs, imaginary destinations, and the strange business of becoming someone you haven’t yet imagined. Some twenty-six years ago, I was out running when Bono stopped me in my tracks. Not literally, of course. He wasn’t standing in the middle of the road, arms outstretched, demanding that I contemplate the nature of reality. Although,...
beliefsidentity
soulcruzer
soulcruzerOct 19, 2026
Am I Human, or Have I Become a Soft Cyborg?
Working Notes from the Posthuman Frontier I’ve just begun reading Francesca Ferrando‘s The Art of Being Posthuman: Who Are We in the 21st Century? I’m only at the beginning, but I already have a feeling this book is going to take me somewhere interesting. I picked it up because of a question I’ve been chasing...
Artificial IntelligenceBooks
soulcruzer
soulcruzerOct 18, 2026
The Loneliness of the Separate Mind
An Owen Barfield-inspired dialogue between Clay Lowe and Mudtown Lion concerning solitude, consciousness, and the peculiar human habit of mistaking a useful abstraction for the nature of reality. From the notebooks of the Textual Underground. The café had only just opened. Outside, the morning was still deciding whether to become daylight. A delivery van idled...
Attentionconsciousness
soulcruzer
soulcruzerOct 17, 2026
The Price of Being There
I paid £9.50 this morning for two newspapers and a small cup of coffee, only to discover that the most interesting story in the café wasn’t in either of the newspapers I’d bought. I’d walked into town because I’d been cooped up in the house all week and wanted to get out into the world....
Attentionhypertext
soulcruzer
soulcruzerOct 15, 2026
Montaigne had room for thumbs
I went looking through Montaigne’s table of contents and got stuck on thumbs. Fear, friendship, death. Fair enough. You expect those at the philosopher’s table. But thumbs? I like that he pulled up a chair for them. Smells too. Drunkenness. Sleep. The clothes we wear and the things we keep putting off until tomorrow. Reading...
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Nachdasein | Notebook
Nachdasein | NotebookOct 12, 2026
Fundamental Dialectic of Soul and Spirit
Is the soulfulness of the soul. Accepting that spirituality is not an empty concept, the soul in its soulfulness is fundamental to the spirit in its spirituality. The two have both been equated and differentiated but only one is more disclosive of ground in general and the ground of the human being specifically. If we take spirit to mean consciousness or reason or mental cognition, then the soul takes on the locus and inner core and essence of the human being in its activity. If reason and cogni...
philosophysocialism