Here’s a metathread that catalogues the topics I have been exploring for the past few years.

Volume 1:

1/ What is Life?
2/ Lambda Calculus
3/ Linguistics
4/ Computational Trinitarianism
5/ Chaos and Fractals
6/ Differentiable Computing
7/ Higher Dimensions

I think the Buddhist insight regarding the alignment problem is that there is no alignment problem — Instead of rotating the Rubikʼs cube of the bits of matter in hope of technical singularity as salvation, look inside and realize that you are already free.

This playlist on is meaning created, given, or revealed by Billy Clark is an engaging watch on the different approaches through which we can make sense of our lives: youtube.com/watch?v=Y4hphh…

It is followed up by this one on Carl Jungʼs theory of synchronicity: youtube.com/watch?v=w4HWSq…

Compilation of a complex of ideas around the creative negative (think: pregnant silence). These ideas keep recurring as I explore the intersection of Buddhism and psychoanalysis. Thought I will register these for future reference.

@hyponymous The way this connects with topology is pretty curious: x.com/prathyvsh/stat…

@hyponymous And to end this on the same note I started, perhaps the double negation (Neti neti) method in Advaita Vedanta has some deep undercurrents with apophatic theology in Greece: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neti_neti

Second time I am running into Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya during the past few months research around Indian philosophical systems and thought I would share more about him. He seems like a fine philosopher from India who engaged with both his roots and the Western canon.

His work seems to have culminated in his magnum opus “Subject as Freedom” (1930).

My interest was piqued again when I noticed that this work has been translated into modern philosophical parlance by Nalini Bhushan and Jay Garfield: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Jay Garfield being an illustrious philosopher in his own right: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_L._Ga…