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If “I Am” is a position and “I want” is a velocity, then desire is the derivative of identity: every want splits into a component that grows you and a component that turns you, a want is felt only when something resists it, and whether knowing can bend wanting turns out to be the oldest fight in moral psychology. … Continue reading“I Want” Is the Derivative of “I Am”
Temptation is usually placed either outside the person, in something with designs on them, or inside, in a flaw of character. Derived from the primitives instead, it is the felt signature of a condition becoming readable — a real relation with nothing intending on either end, and one you did not author. … Continue readingWhat Is Temptation
Classical physics uses complex numbers constantly and can always discard them at the end. Quantum physics cannot, and the reason is exact: take the real part of a classical solution and you still have a solution — take the real part of a wavefunction and you have nothing. A lesson for philosophers and theologians on what F = ma actually claims, and what quantum mechanics does and does not license. … Continue readingThe i Is in the Equation