Much like life, consciousness often eludes definition or even description. We have a tendency to create ambiguous definitions for consciousness that deify the category of whoever is doing the defining (ourselves) while at the same time locking down certain aspects of consciousness that lead us away from knowing anything useful about it. Learning from our […]
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Entropism: Defining Life
Life is a concept with which we are all intuitively familiar but is difficult to pin down with a concrete definition. Let’s start with a definition up front and go from there. An Entropist definition of life is simple: A locally anti-entropic process that maintains or increases local order at the cost of an increase […]
Geopol: How moral responsibility maps to the consciousness spectrum
Continuing on with the foundations of geopolitics (and this one is also part of the foundations of general moral philosophy — but I’ll get into that later), this video discusses consciousness as a spectrum and how moral responsibility maps to that. This particular video is podcast style with just a still image over it as […]