Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on an insignificant basis of reality the imagination spins and weaves new patterns: a blend of memories, experiences, spontaneous ideas, absurdities, and improvisations. August Strindberg, Dream play, Ending of Fanny and Alexander In this article I will try to give an […]
Author: NIHILVS
Beauty and Materialism
Is the world more beautiful with art in it ? is the world more beautiful when it has books, paintings, churches in it ? where does this beauty comes from ? is it ‘natural’ ? how does it relate to the world and to material ? If art was ever to imitate nature is was […]
Thoughts_about_AI
1.0_AI_Ethics Just like genetical engineering, technological development should have ethical limitations, the impact on people lives might be too big, it may get out of our hands because we are dealing with modifying big complexities without having proper knowledge or seeing the full picture 1.1_Return_to_the_age_of_magic Just like an experiment, if we would bring current technology, […]
Will & Dream (Vilja & Dröm)
Detta är min vilja, vilja, min livslånga dröm, min livslånga drömIdéer, idéer, har någon konkreta idéer? Niklas Kvarforth Concepts : Time, space, geometry, politics, ideology, art. Are those descriptions of a (possible) reality ? or something else ? There is an idea which is called determinism. Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827), developed a theory which is […]
Time, the great deception
Time is our greatest enemy,Time is death,Time is what we fight,Time is where eternity disappears,Time is where ideas get lost,Time is the well of our origin,Time is the spring of the unknown,Time is why things have meaning,Time is why life valuable,Time is an idea,Time is a concept,Time is just a construct,Time is a term useful […]
My Apollo, My Dionysos
Apollo, Dionysos, taken from the Greek mythology, are two gods with opposing nature. Around the two, Nietzsche redefined a theory of aesthetics, even a new method of conceptualisation. Eventually, I came up with my own definition of the two. Apollo, the god of of the sun, symbol of rationality. Rationality, from a contemporary perspective, is […]
About good and evil
What happens when member of society fail to associate the ‘bad’ with the ‘good’ ? Being an idealist is about not acknowledging anything that is ‘bad’. Prohibition, naturally and usually indicates something wanted, to say it otherwise, theres no point in prohibiting something, which is anyway, not wanted. If members of civil society fail to […]
Anti (modern) architecture manifesto
Today, in practice, when a construction of a building takes place, we use mostly quantitative language to communicate the procedure of realization. This procedure meant to turn an idea, a principle, a concept, into build material environment. The practical paradigm uses data as language, as means of performing this operation. That means the every detail […]
About magic, money, freedom, shame & authority
Magic Magic the power of apparently influencing events by using mysterious or supernatural forces. So, we start with magic : the idea that supernatural forces exist, and they can influence events. How is the idea of magic different from money ? If we have money, we believe that it can influence events, if I go […]
Metaphors in the root of consciousness
In this article, we discuss some contemporary approaches towards how conciseness is conceptualized. We discuss the connection between philosophy and science in the light of 20th century developments mostly in science, semiotics and literature.