The thing about life that we never want to see is that we inevitably miss the whole point of it! We miss the point of it every time… The point of life — so to speak — is that there is no point — life is playful, not serious. It’s…

The thinking mind is ‘a machine for turning a profit’. It is there for solving problems, in other words. This is very useful at the same time as being (potentially) highly dangerous; it’s dangerous because unless there’s oversight with regard to the operation of this machine then everything straight away…

Everything has been sneakily inverted on us and because this inversion is too massive a thing for us to get our heads around we are well and truly trapped by it. We are trapped by our incapacity to see that there is (or could be) such a thing as the…

Whenever we elect a goal to be important — which is to say, whenever we decide that something shall be a goal — then we automatically create a private (or ‘self-centred’) world. This is such an utterly ubiquitous thing, and yet we never see it. This is something every one…

When we’re playing a finite game then we are being controlled by our need to control. We are absolutely controlled by our need to control — we couldn’t be controlled more! Yet despite this we don’t see this as being the case, we would never see a game as being…

The thinking mind is a machine for turning a profit under whatever circumstances it might find itself in, and this means that it has to be operating in the context of a situation in which there exists better and worse. If there is no better and no worse then it…

The thinking mind is ‘a machine for turning a profit’. It is there for solving problems, in other words. This is very useful at the same time as being (potentially) highly dangerous; it’s dangerous because unless there’s oversight with regard to the operation of this machine then everything straight away…

Image — alchetron.com Human beings love to control other human beings and there’s no arguing with this — it’s what we do, it’s our number one preoccupation. We don’t want to admit it but this is how it is. Controlling each other is ‘the name of the game’, it’s what…

What does it mean to say that ‘everything is information’? The short answer is nobody can ever know what that means. No one can ever know what that means for the simple reason that there is no convenient external platform from which to know it. Even more to the point…