Topic

Life

A collection of 44 issues

The Society of False Selves

What if your true self is just another mask? In a world where curated identities thrive and authenticity becomes a performance, we’re left questioning if there’s anything real beneath the facade. Let's dive into this exploration of hyperreality, alienation, and redemption to confront the void...

The Principal Agent Problem Across Life and Society

What happens when trust is delegated in a world driven by self-interest? Let's explore the principal-agent problem across life, corporate structures, and the economy, weaving philosophy, psychology, and existential reflection into an intricate tapestry of misaligned incentives...

Entropy, Enlightenment, and the Eternal Symphony of Symmetry

What if God is a state of perfect symmetry in the zeroth state of entropy, where chaos and order converge? What if creation, destruction, purpose, and enlightenment reflect our quest to align with this ultimate equilibrium?

Thought’s Harmony : From Fragments to the Zeroth Entropy

What if humanity is a harmony of individual and collective thought, where matter arises from shared consciousness? This experiment ponders thought's duality, the chaos-order tension, and the dream of perfect symmetry — a zeroth entropy state, a glimpse of the divine.

The Subtle Echoes of Memory : Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way Vs. the Maithili Film Gamak Ghar

In a world where time slips through our fingers like fine sand, certain works of art compel us to grasp its fleeting nature, urging us to reconsider what is truly lost and what remains eternally within us. Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time) and the

Transmutation, Mutation, and Evolution : The Symphony of Errors and the Engine of Progress

The narrative of life, whether biological or intellectual, is one of transmutation — an alchemical, iterative process where change becomes the constant and error the catalyst. In both nature and human society, the fundamental unit of action is mutation, a mechanism driven by errors in processes that propel evolution. This principle,

The Paradox of the Synced Mind : A Dystopian Dance

In a future where intelligence is leveled to an even plane and knowledge syncs in an instant, we find ourselves in a curious dystopia. Here, every mind holds the same measure of brilliance, and every new piece of information is shared seamlessly, yet the act of thinking remains a private

Life, a Subset of Non-Life : The Absurdity of Consciousness

The Non-Life That Dreams of Itself There’s a subtle terror that grips me at times — a silent shudder of realization that everything I am, everything I’ve ever been, and everything I’ll ever be, is built on the scaffolding of non-life. Consciousness, that ineffable spark of “aliveness” I

The Party as Ritual : Modern-Day Dionysian Mysteries

Echoes of Dionysus in the Neon Glow Late into the night, when the strobe lights pulse with the rhythm of a collective heartbeat and bodies sway like leaves in a storm, I find myself struck by the uncanny similarity between the modern party and something far more ancient — the Dionysian

The Noise of Belonging : Why We Crave Loudness to Feel Alive?

There’s a peculiar phenomenon I’ve often observed in myself and others : the magnetic pull toward noise, chaos, and overstimulation. It’s in the way we crowd into concerts, letting basslines rattle our ribs; the way we light up our screens to stream endless reels of flashing images; the