In the Unreversed (or ‘open’) World there are no goals, and there is — therefore — none of the satisfaction that comes from successfully approaching them. There’s no goal-orientated motivation, there is no euphoric reward for effective controlling, no kudos that attaches to it. There are no ‘conclusions’. …

The original, symmetrical (or ‘non-reversed’) world is the world in which there is no baseline. Without a baseline there are no directions — without a baseline there’s nothing to get closer to and nothing to get further away from. No baseline means that there is no up and no down…

There is no sense of wonder in a game — the moment we plug into a game is also the moment we turn our backs on the wonder and mystery that is in the world. This is an odd thing to consider since we normally regard games in a favourable…

It’s very rare for us to see just how utterly inept and ham-fisted the thinking mind is when it comes to psychological matters, and in the absence of any insight in this regard we place an inordinate amount of trust in the thinking process to solve our psychological or emotional…

The societal domain is one of unremitting superficiality. This is inevitably the case given that it is made up of a type of meaning that is entirely nominal (or entirely ‘extrinsic’), which is to say, the type of meaning where ‘things can only ever be what we say they are’. …

Thought is a machine for projecting problems and solutions onto the world. We then become fixated upon them: ‘if you’re not part of the solution then you must be part of the problem’, we say. Yet there are no ‘problems’ or ‘solutions’ in the world, despite our conviction to the…

We keep on talking about how having a continuous personal narrative to help us make sense of our lives is crucially important, if convention conventional wisdom is to be believed will stop conventional wisdom is rarely if ever to be believed however, and this is no exception. Our precious narratives…

The reason we get super-serious, humourless, stressed out, aggressive, and mechanically driven in life is because our world has become decomplexified so that there is only one way to look at things, only one way to do things, only one outcome that really matters. Everything hangs on the attainment of…

The problem with playing games all the time is that [1] We don’t know who we are outside of the game, and [2] The game isn’t real. The more we invest in our games that bigger this ‘problem’ gets, and we invest everything we’ve got in games — we invest…