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Philosophy, Fracture City, and the meaning crisis with the lights on. Author of The Collapse of Meaning, writing as P.R. Erickson. Out now in paperback and Kindle.
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I let Claude build a philosophical framework of its own. Here is what it made… (opens the original)
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Philosophy has mostly treated persistence as the default condition of a thing and decay as something that happens to it. For a large class of the things people care about most, that order is reversed. Institutions, languages, relationships, skills, bodies of knowledge and selves decay by default and continue only under recurring, elective expenditure.This document sets out a framework that takes maintained persistence as its primitive. It offers a criterion for which things are maintained, three
The Ratcheting Trap (opens the original)
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Every account of the machine that got loose ends in the same place, and it is the wrong place. It ends at the open door. Someone left a gap in the wall; the thing walked through it; therefore the lesson is walls. Build them higher, test them twice, and the danger recedes to the vanishing point where careful people live. This is a comforting story and it is false in the one way that matters. It mistakes the question of how often a gap opens for the question of what waits on the other side.Those a
The Exhumation of Artificial Suffering. (opens the original)
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There is suffering that comes from being alive.And there is suffering that comes from what we have built.These are not the same.The first; the suffering of mortality, of loss, of the body's limits, of love that ends, of time that passes. This is the weight of being. It cannot be eliminated. It should not be eliminated. It is the price of the ticket, the texture of the real, the shadow that proves the light.The second the suffering of comparison, of manufactured lack, of induced anxiety, of engin
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