Government: noun, a terrorist organisation endorsed and financed by the majority of voters.

Philosophical questions are typically posed without having a clear idea of what one is asking, as if hoping to make the question meaningful and redeem oneself by means of a charitable response.

Philosophical arguments are typically posed without having a clear idea of what one means by the invoked terms, as if hoping to make them meaningful and redeem oneself by means of the questions that the argument may provoke.

This deficiency of meaning is utterly hopeless and virtually unconscious outside of philosophy: in sciences, culture and politics.

We are yelling and grunting and moaning into the abyss, hoping for the same sound to be returned by something. We are throwing pebbles into a bottomless pit, hoping to hear a splash.

A common feature of simulated language is that it carries no evidence of the intention to convey a particular meaning, which is typically manifested by the author failing to define and establish relevance of some already vague or controversial terms.

An example of simulated language is to ‘quote’ philosophers, without summarising their argument in formal terms and thus showing the understanding of what their argument means and that it is valid. This is typically not possible precisely because philosophers are also mostly simulating langauge and have no consistent argument that could be formally expressed.

HYPOTHESIS: The function of the brain is not to generate meaning/thought, but to transmit and translate the intentions generated in thought into the object-language of the body, and vice versa. The brain is an executive module linking the non-physical ‘mind’ with the physical ‘body’.

The majority of humans are still limited to object-oriented language, on par with the apes, and are almost entirely bereft of the capacity to convey abstraction. They mimic word-patterns just like they mimic gestures, to get the effect they want, and they do not mean anything else by the words they use. LLMs can effectively emulate the function of common speech that occurs on that level, including all customer service ‘communication’. The popularity of LLM’s confirms that human speech is mostly a simulation of language, meaningless beyond the functional effect of word-patterns.

Nothing: n., the synthetic meaning (sense-unity) of contradictory propositions that exceeds the meaning of the propositions considered independently and the meaning of ‘contradiction’.

When the ruling power intends to manipulate/persuade people, it exploits the target audience’s incapacity to speak the language the media simulates. This allows it to trigger deterministic reactions to the word patterns imprinted by the media media. The question ‘what do you mean by these words and are these statements logically consistent’ does not arise because the word-pattern itself was rendered meaningful on the emotional level, by prior conditioning. Terms such as anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, racist, evidence based, climate denier etc are not even words of the spoken language (despite resembling words to the letter) but are cybernetic commands.

Unless the meaning of words is contemplated prior to speech, they are not ‘meant’, and one engages only in simulation of language.

‘Physical experiences’ are mental states (Instances of meaning) that are collectively categorised as ‘physical’.

The authors assert that unrealised capital gains on the family home should be taxed, under some arbitrary standard of fairness. I contend that the price inflation of the primary residence is not a net gain, since the like-for-like replacement cost would be identical. Another way, it is not possible to gain from selling the primary residence because one needs a primary residence, and to buy a residence of the same quality would cost the same as the one available for sale. If anything, price inflation of the primary residence is a net loss, since it increases insurance and maintenance costs.

By creating new units of currency, banks steal purchasing power from everyone’s wallet and this is why it is virtually impossible to save to buy a house without credit, because your savings are continuously devalued by this theft, which manifests as inflation.

Nr 1 rule of agency: say NO, always

Susceptibility to being controlled via the cybernetic use of language can be overcome by developing a habit of saying NO to every suggestion, request or command that did not result from our own prior deliberation and intention. Say NO to every offer until you think about it, and say NO to any pressure to think about it ‘now’ or on someone else’s terms. An action/choice that is not a conclusion of your own argument is not your action, but a cybernetic reaction: being controlled like a puppet.

The average degree of consciousness may have been elevated by existential charity shown to enemies and outsiders in the tribal past, but today this is taken for granted with human rights. Today, the development of consciousness requires charitable communication, charitable interpretation of arguments, trying to make sense together without being obstinate, inconsiderate or manipulative. The evolutionary criteria of consciousness may have themselves evolved.

Every thought is a reaction to incompleteness and inconsistencies of meaning, aiming to maintain the integrity of Self as it interacts with other instances of consciousness, who also aim to maintain the integrity of Self.

Commercial banks have the best PR. They get away with creating 97% of the money supply and charge interest on it, ship half the income to offshore bond holders, tax free, blame inflation they create on the publicly owned central banks, and have the government pretending that commercial banks don’t create money:) makes you wonder who the real government is.

Trans-identity is incoherent because it contradicts its own standard of gender-identity: https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/gender-identity-on-trial

The axioms I rely on in argument are just the axioms presupposed in the use of language: the laws of sense. The question ‘what are your axioms’ or the assertion ‘define your axiomatic system or your argument is not valid’ is a performative contradiction: an expression of disintegrated consciousness.

The idea of ‘reality’ is one of the most primitive elements of our mythology. It expresses our innate capacity to communicate in the basic object-language that we interpret as perception/experience. The things we perceive are said to ‘exist’ in the sense of having the same meaning for others as they have for us. In the meta-language of speech, the common meanings that represent ‘reality’ are said to be ‘true’.

If there is not enough housing then why not just build your own home, like people used to do? Plenty of undeveloped land in Australia, so what is stopping you? Please share your ideas in the comments.

Inflation is a tax; it extracts purchasing power from your wallet and puts it into the wallet of the money issuer. When this tax is imposed by private banks, it is plain theft; when imposed by the state, it may be put to legitimate use.