128 Quotes by Mike Hockney

Freedom is not freedom from causation. It’s freedom from causation that is not your own. What could be more obvious?

Hegel was an advocate of panlogism: reason is literally everywhere. Existence is made of reason, hence existence is entirely knowable. Reality is constituted by the mind and is its construction. Given that mind can know everything it made, there is no unknowable, noumenal world. If mind creates everything, there is nothing outside mind, no noumenal objects existing independently of mind.

We want to be transparent and yet not to be touched. We do and don’t want our private space. What prompts the Glass Delusion? – a tension between embracing the world and fleeing from it, from wanting to be part of it and wanting to be separated from it.

Infinity itself may constitute a strange loop, i.e. as you get further and further from zero, you unexpectedly end up right back at zero. When people talk of infinity, they invariably say that you can always add “1” to a number to get a larger number. But imagine that you add “1” and unexpectedly find yourself back at zero. In that case, infinity is actually a “bounded infinity.

The Omega Point is not a fantasy. We are converging on it. If humanity trusts in its most enlightened, meritocratic, intelligent individuals, committed to helping Society rather than themselves, we can get there in two or three generations. That’s how close we are.

We are all prisoners of our personalities, but some personalities are much more useful than others for apprehending the truth of existence.

Everything Sam Harris says comes from the empiricist, materialist, atheistic, scientific perspective. Therefore, every single conclusion he arrives at can be completely reinterpreted from a rationalist, idealist, religious, spiritual, mathematical perspective. Absolutely nothing he says about ultimate reality is true. That’s what happens when you’re a Sophist rather than a Philosopher.

Illuminism is based on Euler’s Formula. Euler’s Formula is the basis of Fourier mathematics. Fourier mathematics is the basis of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is the basis of the scientific world. Therefore Euler’s Formula is the basis of the scientific world, and the basis of everything.

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behaviour of Western Civilization.” – Robert Anton Wilson.