From Breath to Bits: How Each Technological Epoch Rewrites Reality

Thesis. Across cultures and eras, philosophers and natural philosophers have consistently borrowed the metaphorics, mechanisms, and affordances of their cutting-edge technologies to model cosmos, life, mind, and society—and then treated those metaphors as ontology. A

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Debt: The Driving Force of the Global Economy, and Private Equity’s Habit-Driven Value Extraction

Debt as the Main Stage in the Global Economy Modern economic growth has become deeply debt-driven. Global debt across all sectors reached an unprecedented $313 trillion in 2023, up from about $210 trillion a decade

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The Psychology of Passive Consumption: Unraveling the Oddly Satisfying and the Doomscrolling Phenomenon

Introduction The rise of “oddly satisfying” videos and compulsive scrolling behaviors (like doomscrolling) highlights a curious aspect of human psychology. Oddly satisfying videos are short clips that portray repetitive, visually harmonious tasks or processes –

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