Topic

Perception & Reality

A collection of 14 issues

A Reflective Journey Through Time, Entropy, and Causality

Time isn’t what it seems. Physics suggests past, present, and future exist simultaneously, yet we experience a relentless flow. Entropy fuels this illusion, causality anchors reality, and quantum uncertainty blurs fate. Do we shape time, or are we mere travelers in a fixed continuum?

A Universe of Chances : The Nature of Possibility and Probability

Let's discover how the tension between possibility and probability shapes our decisions, dreams, and sense of meaning. From Bayesian reasoning to quantum mysteries, this essay unravels the art of living boldly in uncertainty, balancing wonder and realism in an unpredictable world.

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?

The Eternal Loop of Leverage in Finance

Every financial innovation — whether banks, derivatives, fintech, or DeFi — is just leverage repackaged. The core remains : amplifying returns by using more than one’s own capital. This essay unveils the eternal cycle of leverage, its risks, and its philosophical depth. Let's dive-in ...

The Price of Time : A Personal Discourse on Valuing Life’s Most Fleeting Currency

In the relentless churn of daily obligations, demands, and the omnipresent noise of modern existence, I have come to one nagging question: What is the worth of my time? Time — this currency no bank vault can hold, no ledger can account for, and no contract can truly secure. Perhaps the

What Becomes of Us When Stripped of Our Illusions?

We live amidst illusions so deeply woven into the fabric of our lives that most of us mistake them for reality. They are comforting shrouds — myths of permanence, constructs of meaning, the false coherence of identity, the allure of progress. These illusions sustain us, individually and collectively, like fragile scaffolding

The Synthetic Reality : Are GenAI’s Hallucinations a Mirror of Our Collective Unconscious?

Every so often, I find myself pondering a simple yet profoundly unsettling question : What is reality? Traditionally, we might define it as a shared, objective world, one that is perceived through our senses and verified by consensus. But when I turn to the world of Generative AI (GenAI), this clean

The Hallucinations of GenAI : A Reflection on Reality, Perception, and the Mirage of Intelligence

It has often struck me, that in our quest to create machines that think, we may inadvertently be birthing ones that hallucinate. Hallucination, a term that conjures images of altered perceptions and fractured realities, is often whispered with caution in the realms of GenAI. What is it about this phenomenon

Anti-Knowledge : A Journey Through the Paradoxes of Knowing

In a world that celebrates knowledge as the ultimate currency, I find myself drawn instead to its inverse : anti-knowledge, the space of what is not known, and perhaps, what cannot be known. Not an empty void, anti-knowledge is instead the paradoxical space where knowing folds back on itself, revealing the