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The Return of the Gods

A couple of Sermons about the origins of religion in collaboration with James Reeves of Midnight Radio.

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4. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known

LLMs may have code, but they can't touch the Lacanian Real, so they don't have the Symbolic either, since human language is a relation between what it discloses in the register of the Symbolic and what it hides in the register of the Real.

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3. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known

Jorge Luis Borges has a famous short story called "On Exactitude in Science," in which a cartographer makes a map that is as large as the territory that it covers. What can this tells us about the relation between models and the reality that they proport to disclose?

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2. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known

Uncomputable problems seem to indicate that not everything can be known, especially because of their relation to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. However, it all comes does to how one interprets "incompleteness."

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1. The Unknowable Is the Ground of Whatever Is Known.

Evolution by natural selection seems to show gap's of indeterminacy within its "total" determination of niche construction. Could the "natural" selector be less "blind" than was once assumed?

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1. Dreams and a Sense of the Sacred

The most direct road to the lost sacred is through the fucked up landscape of dreams. Shifting through this nighttime trash is to enjoy the warped detritus of the Real.