Korpo

Whenever we project our mind to the future, we conceive it as some form of our present. We think in terms of now, of our present state of consciousness, and that inherently means all its limitations.

There may be many people in the world ...

If you ever want to know what is the most dangerous tendency of the human mind, my vote goes to justification. You could alternatively call it rationalization, the ability to create a story in your mind that justifies your behaviour.

Yet ...

I recently had an experience that reminded me of the concept of "psychological time" - our experience of passing time in environments in which time does not exist as it does in physical reality.

What happened was this:

I ...

I read an article(in German) that questioned one assumption present in many modern discourses - that we live in times of ever-increasing complexity and that this overwhelms us. The author demonstrates that an European living now would not experience ...

Years ago the first Matrix movie stirred peoples' imaginations. What fascinates me in hindsight is not that it did, but what aspects of it did. Putting all its illogical and less convincing elements aside, "Matrix" had a strong archetypal story lost ...