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Monday, May 2, 2011

Inconsistencies


A fair summary of my passions over the last five years would be that I've become fascinated with phenomena that are inconsistent:

Evolving lifeforms whose existence generates Zeno style paradoxes at every stage, such that a rabbit is a non-rabbit (in Brassier's terminology) or in my terminology a strange stranger.

Buddha Nature, an entity that is devoid of all characteristics (empty) yet manifests in determinate ways such as compassion, wisdom and so on.

OOO objects, which are simultaneously withdrawn and entangled in a sensual (interobjective) ether.

Interconnectedness, which implies a not-all set of things without center or edge, strangely less than the sum of its parts.

Cantor sets that contain infinite points and infinite no-points.

Irony, in particular Romantic irony, which is an aesthetic version of the Liar paradox.

Gödel's Incompleteness, which states that for a theory to be true, it cannot prove every statement that it can generate.

Musical forms that are within a non-rigid, non-thin boundary between music and not-music (“non-music”).

Yep, I think that just about covers it.

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