The body the fullness did not need, and still entered
This essay continues The fullness that pours out a world it does not owe to anyone and The particular event without a new act in God. If inverted Actus Purus keeps God as pure act and still admits dated particularity without a new state in the source,…
Short-form video and the mind that cannot come down
Meta executives say science does not back public fear of platforms. Caty Enders, in The Guardian, looks past the lawsuit headlines to a quieter claim: what short-form video may be doing to attention, impulse control, and memory. The map is thin — and not…
The layers that hold us together through body, mind, and social change
A layered essay on how bodies, minds, institutions, culture, and unequal pressure shape social stability and change without turning society into a single collective mind.
The distributed layered Self
The self is neither a little person inside the brain nor a vague everywhere. It is an emergent process, grounded in critical nodes, sustained by distributed interaction, and shaped by body, prediction, memory, language, relationship, culture, sleep, and…
The body is a distributed mind
The body is not a passive instrument controlled by the brain. It is a distributed system of sensing, processing, prediction, regulation, defense, memory, and identity. The self is not located in one place. It emerges from the integration of body, brain,…
See the pattern. Name the tradition. Test the claim. Work with the body. Act in reality
Serious self-knowledge does not begin from nowhere, and it does not end in explanation. It must know its traditions, test its claims, include the body, scale action to real capacity, and know when survival itself is the only honest action available.
The body remembers what the mind explains
And four things self-knowledge leaves out There is a serious and careful tradition of mapping the inner life. Psychology has given it names: schema, defense mechanism, projection, rumination, dissociation, avoidant attachment, emotional regulation.…