Pavel Somov's Blog, page 19

Hug a Phone Tree

A trend: before (historically) too long there might be more phone trees than actual trees. Modern-day life (particularly of the urban kind) is a virtual jungle, a series of pseudo-encounters with pseudo-reality. If this is the space that we inhabit it stands to reason we need to learn to hug a phone tree.

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Reality is non-negotiable: it is what it is.

A Neuron is a Neuron

Not sure what it is like to be a bat? Notice being a neuron. And then you will have an idea.

(No Subject)

Tautologies require no proof (which is epistemologically useful).

Tolerance of Ambiguity

Reflected Promiscuity of Enlightenment ... is Just Another Mind Decor

Fana/Fena

Rumi perished (in form) but did he (in essence)? Dissolution of self (fana/fena) is really a dissolution of non-self (what dies is Form, we are not Form). See Lotus Effect.

19th Century Azeri Monism (Akhundov)

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Akhundov