Footpaths through twenty years

What can you know if you start from experience instead of the fact? My hunch is that objectivity is a design that got mistaken for metaphysics. I like doubt because certainty is boring.

Desirability and value are cognitive even when bacteria do the valuing, so I start the study of mind with them. Saying the mind is the brain is like saying light is created in the sun.

The Roman legion was an artificial intelligence, and so is any bureaucracy. So I study AI as an institution. I'm a technophile who worries about cognitive imperialism.

The Globe is the human bubble. The Earth has no center, or one for each being. Add them up and you get the Planet, which I've started calling the ultimate giver of order.

Why has human power gone hand in hand with human insignificance? I've been asking since 2016. Meanwhile, keeping the planet's metabolic order is our primary collective task as a species.

I've always been skeptical of the nation state, and I soured on world government too, since government is about power before freedom. Here I chase Hindutva and a dying order.

Metabolism > Marxism. Underneath every market runs a flow of energy and information. I have a dim view of economics as a discipline.

I keep asking how to inherit a tradition the modern world broke. I read it for what it lights up today, and if my reading of some dead man is mistaken, so be it. More street, less ivory tower.

I'd invite rivers to the house and oceans to the senate. As a vegan, I call factory farming the greatest moral failure of human society. The moral is material.

In India, religion has been swallowed by modernity and spit out as politics. I read Hindutva as identity politics in secular dress. Caste is here too.

Knowledge is now produced everywhere, and I've never trusted disciplines much. So what's a school or a university for?