Essays, Meditations, Thoughts


2029 - 2020

More On Free Will Meets Absolute Determinism
Some implications of 'Determinism, Freewill, and Relative Entropy'.
Determinism, Freewill, and Relative Entropy
The present moment and its relation to knowledge.
The 20th Century Golden Age
On the 20th century and the environment.
Tic-Tac-Two
Rules for a variation of Noughts and Crosses.
Human Obsolescence
If machines can do everything humans can do, will humans be needed?
Life and the Fate of the Universe
On life opposing the heat-death of the universe.
Intelligence
Musings on intelligence.
The Energy Age, The Information Age
Thoughts on information and gravity.
Attention Span and Ageing
A relation of fine detail and time.
Non-Homogenous Universe Expansion
Pondering infinity and perfection vs. the real universe.
Auto-Phoneme
A concept for efficiently recording speech.
The Allure Of Truth
On the endurance of truth.
16-Bit Dithering and Quantum Mechanics
Implications of a random factor increading accuracy.
Changing The Past
On fatalism and the ability to change past events.
Painting The Palace: A Card Game
Rules of an easy to learn card game related to Sevens or Crazy Eights.
The Cosmogony Of Order
More on life supplanting chaos.
Positive And Negative Emotions
Are some emotions good and some bad?
Controversies
On Controversies.
Sex Crime
On sex crimes.
Two Rules For Life
Thoughts on the principles of life.
Barnacle Sound Proofing
A concept for sound-proofing.
Two Universes: The Spacetime and Frequency Domains
More thoughts on determinism.
Two Universes: The Unknown And The Eternal
Thoughts on determinism and fatalism.
Black Hole Topology
Thoughts about the differences in the behaviour of gravity between a solid sphere, hollow sphere, null sphere.
The Social Dimension In Art
On art with social messages.
Self
Where do you end and not-you begin?
The Arrow of Space
Musing on entropy and black holes.
Entropic Intelligence
On the energy of intelligence.
Fake Professional Art
On the professionalisation of art.
Control and Cause and Effect
A small writing about control and oppression.
Detecting Race/Gender Bias: A Psychological Experiment
An experiment to measure racism and/or sexism.
Vegetarianism
On vegetarianism.
Real Fur Fake Fur
On the morality of using animal fur.
Immigration and the Environment
Immigration, population and the environment.
Love and Money
The emotional roots of economies.
Multi-Dimensional Matrices And The Standard Model
Thoughts about matrices and particles.
Energy Imbalance Of Importing And Exporting Information
An observation on loading and saving.
The Impossibility Of Backwards Time Travel
An outline of the extra information needed to move backwards.
Determinism and Will
How can free will exist in a deterministic universe?
Gender Egality
On equalising gender, race, and anything else.
New Life
On global extinction and new machine life.

2019 - 2010

Predictability and Cause and Effect
Thoughts on the unpredictable.
Meteor Defence Systems
Methods of defending the Earth against large meteors.
Empathy, Entropy And The Ocean Of The Universe
Comparing emotions with communication between molecules.
Creating, Promoting, Archiving
The three jobs of an artist.
Gravity from Electrons
Inconclusive ideas about the emission of gravity from particles in a wave state.
Contrast, Drama and Climax
The universal models in works of art.
The Shape Of Cause To Effect
Comparisons of fractals to the shape of the universe.
Painting Sonatas
On the concept of painting sonatas and symphonies.
Surrealism
About my paintings and the surrealism label.
Playing By Empathy: Incorporation Of Musical Instruments Into The Body Schema
How to learn to play an instrument in seconds.
Equivalence Of Inflation And Motion: A Thought Experiment
A thought experiment involving snooker balls.
Life As An Information Storage System
A definition of life.
The Infinite Beam Problem
If I shine a laser into deep space, is it lost forever?
Art In 2018 (external link)
A broad examination of the state of visual art in 2018.
The Conscious And The Unconscious Mind
An examination of unconscious thought.
Thoughts On Superdeterminism
Inconclusive points concerning free will and determinism.
Structures For 3D Audio
An examination of data structures for 3D audio.
Instant Action
Thoughts on entanglement, Bell's Theorem, symmetry.
Information
Musings on information content in the universe.
Debunking Parallel Universes
Why there are not an infinite number of parallel universes.
Grey Technology
A dream about a damage coping concept for technology.
The Energy Of Despair
Sharp emotion, the ignition of art.
The Specialist, The Anti-Artist
Artists often evolve to become specalists, but this limits creativity.
Achievement
A simple mental tool to achieve anything.
Creativity
Why creative ideas are unpopular, and popular ideas uncreative.
Questions Upon A Bubble Universe
Questions and thoughts about bubbles.
The New Renaissance
Rejoice, for the New Renaissance is upon us.
A World Without Zero
Why a form of mathematics without zero might be necessary.
Change
The inevitability of change.
Art And Faith
The best art requires bravery.
The Impossibility Of Universal Happiness
On happiness for all.
Personal Happiness
Happiness is often considered the goal of life.
On Free Music
The enemy of musical art is the digital sequencer!
Emotional Messages
On the rationalisation of emotions.
Universe Expansion And Black Holes
Thoughts on the topology of matter around a black hole and the early universe.
Surface Information
A quick note concerning the entropy of a volume.
The End Of The World
The end of the world is not nigh.
The Münchhausen Trilemma Problem
Solutions to the Münchhausen trilemma problem, a problem about the proof of truth.
Replication And Decay
The evolution of information.
Limits Of Expansion
Speculation about the rules of the universe, compared with life.
Consciousness And Experience
Simple explainations of consciousness.
A Free Will Of Infinite Possibility
On the barrier between imagination and reality.
Blame
On the futility of blame and praise.
Art As Emotional Communication
On the definition of art.
Love And Death
Reality as connection and loss, attachment and disattachment.
Structural Forms In Visual Art
Some rules of form, and why these are needed.
Probabilistic And Discrete Knowledge
Information can flip between wave-like and discrete states.
Knowledge Of Reality
What is knowable, what is unknowable, why?
Free Will And The Past
More on free will.
Predictability And Freewill
The limits of science.
Art As Communcation
Exploring communication as the roots of art.
12 Stages of Artistic Development
A step by step guide to becoming a good artist.
Cause And Effect
To a Tralfamadorian.
Desire And Happiness
Exploring links between want and happiness.
Insignificance
I have some bad news, you are doomed to a life of mediocrity.
Climate Control
Controlling global warming by controlling the geomagnetic field.
Thoughts Towards Others
On other people being part of our ourselves.
Brain Expansion
Mental exercises.
Happiness
Happiness as control.
Truth
More on truth.
Emotions And Logical Thought
Emotion and reasoning.
Existence And Information
More ramblings on information.
Biolism and Technolism
Two opposing philosophies of nature.
Perception Of The Passage Of Time
Is the present moment physically distinct from the past and future?
Information Relativity
The nature of existence as relative to inaccurate knowledge.
Classifications Of Art
Different types of art.
Truth
Truth as a social construct.
Evolution Towards Electronic Life
On robots replacing humans.
Inequality In Society
On inequality.
I Do Not Think And Am Not
On the limits of control.
Personal Truth
On the validity of facts.
The Meaning Of Life
Thoughts on why and how life has or hasn't got meaning.
On Acceptance
Accepting life in a meaningless universe that is beyond control.
On Worry
Worry is the art of making the unimportant seem important.
The Philosopy of Art
The function of art.
The Great Being.
Could society be self-aware?
Life And The Attenuation Information Loss.
A postulation that life evolved to combat entropy.
Consciousness
A brief look at self-awareness.
Enlightenment
Overcoming emotional pain.
The Disincentive Of Researching Cures
Why pharmaceutical companies don't search for cures for diseases.
One Tiny Step
More on information and knowledge.
Implications Of Data Loss
Some thoughts on the data loss explored in the above.
Reason, Observation And Truth
Why there can be no truth beyond what we can observe.
Quantity And Infinity
The simplest possible universe.
An Omniscient God
Thoughts on the nature of information.
Dark Matter Speculation
Gentle musing on the subject of dark matter.
Sensing Time
Why time feels like it is passing.
Anxiety In New Situations
A hypothesis that anxiety is an essential component of learning.
The Role Of The Artist
Society as psychological extension.
The Two Loves
Visualisation of two types of love.
Extroversion And Depression
A theory of depression.
The Origins Of Religion
An explanation of religion.
Dissonance And Happiness
A theory of happiness.
Creation As Texture
A theory of creation.
Truth
What is true, and why?
Free Will
Principles of free will in a universe with dimensional time.
The Two Universes
The mind universe and the concrete universe.
The Principles Of Beauty
A theory of aesthetics.
The Proportions Of Chaos
Postulating a fixed ratio of perfection to mistakes.
The Social Network
Implications of society created from the bottom up.
The Essence Of Art
Definition of art as fulfiller of social need.
The Ideal In The Derivative
Why derivative artworks are not inferior to original artworks.

2009 - 2000

The Sheeky Keypad
A new keypad for text messaging.
The Chromosurrealist Manifesto
The symbolic representation of colour.
Bonding Principles Within Relationships
A philosophy of relationships.
The Knowledge Osmosis Hypothesis
The learning process and the nature of dreams.
Attainment over Ownership in Society
Tweaking capitalism.
Art And Communication
Good art is effective communication of a message.
Degrees Of Consciousness
A scale of sleep and wakefullness.
Textual Melodic Notation
A way of notating music using plain text.
Honesty, Art and Isolation
Telling the truth will make you unpopular, but a good artist.
Art And Masochism
Masochism is an essential precept for success.
Neurosigils
A neurosigil is an image designed to program the mind.
The Neutrality Room And The Everything Room
Two rooms designed to supress and to stimulate.
The Laughter Of Truth
Why surrealists do not tell jokes, but convey truths.
What Happened To All Of The Antimatter
An idea about the formation of matter and antimatter in the early universe.
Prime Numbers and Quantum Mechanics
A speculation on how prime numbers might be as unpredictable as quantum events, and so explainable using the maths of sub-atomic physics.
War And Energy
Conflict as a chaotic energy driven system.
On Commitment
A paragraph of inspiration.
Expressionist and Impressionist Surrealism
How surrealist art can be an expression of the artist, or a message for the viewer.
A Funny Thing Happened
What do you feel when a surreal idea feels just right?
William Tell Painting
A fun game for painters of all sorts.
Solutions To Global Warming
Let's think positive about reducing global temperature and reducing the greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.
The Repulsion Problem
Some thoughts about the use of a raw onion during oil painting.
Zeno's Paradox And The End Of Infinity
Do the thought experiments of an ancient Greek prove that infinity cannot exist?
Supercreature Theory
An idea that everyone on Earth is part of a larger being.
The Unreasonable Hypothesis
An proposition that a new question arises from every answer.
The Logician versus The Emotive
Classifications of painter.
How To Think Like A Surrealist
A look at some of the ideas behind surrealism, and some methods of creating and thinking surrealistically.
The Impossiblity Of The Stationary
An idea that objects that do not move through space do not exist.
Movement Through Time
Why we are not moving forwards through time, although it appears that way.
Storage Of The Curvature Of Spacetime
Some of my thoughts about the storage of the curvature of spacetime.
Problems With S.E.T.I.
Concerning the limited period in which a civilisation might broadcast simple radio signals.
Karma In A Godless Universe
An idea about the possibility of an afterlife in an athiest Universe.
Problems With An Afterlife
An attempt at analysis of possible heavenly societies.
The Human Hierarchy
An examination of status within human society.
The Purpose of The Uncertainty Principle
An explanation about the limits of any scientific prediction and why limits are essential if time is a dimension.
A Genetic Explanation For Religion
An explanation for the emergence of religion as an biolgical evolutionary trait.