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LLMs Don’t Hallucinate — They Compensate:
A Cognitive Mirror We Don’t Yet Know How to Read With the start of a new year, it struck me that I’ve been using LLMs for a bit more than two years now. I started with coding‑scripting problems in Lua for Filter Forge — not a well‑supported niche — by bouncing things off ChatGPT and…
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The Arrow of Potential
Friday, October 10, 2025, 9:17:50 PM | Dialogue I don’t know if people read my posts and wonder, “Where the hell is this coming from?” I can see it happening though. I’ve written before about typing my fingers to death trying to keep up with my thoughts. The thing that gets me started most of…
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All or Nothing — Division by Zero
If you divide by nothing, in one sense, you get nothing. In another sense, you are left with everything. However much there is to divide, all of it remains – undivided. The remainder is everything. To count it all, however, you must divide it up into discrete quantities. Of course, you can keep dividing it…
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Poetry and Figurative Language Paper
April 6, 2009 ENG 340 – Creative Writing Dr. Shari Muench, EdD. A pen and a piece of paper might technically be the only “tools” a poet requires, but there are many “literary” tools at his (or her) disposal as well. In addition to imagination and a little flirtation with the Muse, a…
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Fair and Sound: DegreeStory Replies
Original publication: December 7, 2013 Re: University of Phoenix Online Associate of Arts in Business Bachelor of Science in Information Technology for Visual Communications Article #1 – 100 words answering the question: Is your pay fair? Fair, But Not Very Fair There are dozens of great lines in “The Princess Bride” like “Never go up against…
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Bridging the Gap: A DegreeStory
Original publication: November 6, 2013 Re: University of Phoenix Online Associate of Arts in Business Bachelor of Science in Information Technology for Visual Communications I am the fifth of seven children, and was an advanced placement student in Art, English and Drama in High School. I have always had a knack for art, an urge…
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The Absolute Truth
The best representation of a thing is the thing itself and yet there are things that we experience great difficulty recognizing in their true form. The truth is one of those things. In speaking of the truth, what we have is a word–and as a representation of a thing, a word provides a label for…
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Divide by Zero
Edit: Updated on Jan 12, 2026 with supporting math conforming to the intuited logic of the original post. I always came back to this article expecting to be ashamed by my “absurd” assertions. I always came away from reading it thinking there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it, even though it simply wasn’t a mathematical paper.…
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Gravity in a Distributed, Process Driven, Information-Based Universe
To a curious mind, gravity is a curious phenomenon. The more one pays attention to it, the more fascinating and mysterious it becomes. Today, we have the advantage of having had great minds ponder the mystery and define what can be observed and inferred by studying it. Newton pondered the question “why do objects fall?”…
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What is evil?
There is a line in “The Matrix” when Morpheus confronts Neo about a wrongness in the world, “like a splinter in your mind.” It was caused by an instinctive apprehension of the artificial reality he was trapped in. It is similar to a feeling many people have about our own reality. There is a wrongness…
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Explaining the Different Dimensions
I normally avoid the first person when writing an article or essay, but in this case I need to begin with a personal story A year into my studies at Humboldt State University a mutual acquaintance showed up at my friend’s apartment while I was visiting and regaled us with his synopsis of a lecture…
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Is there really such a thing as the present?
Is there really such a thing as time? That is a question it is helpful to ask in order to address what we call the present. That is because our experience of time is completely subjective and because everything we are is dependent on that peculiar subjectivity. Time is what we derive from the ceaseless…
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Noosphere: The Future of Evolution?
Those moments in life when we are confronted with a new concept or idea can be life altering, seemingly setting the mind free to roam a new and undiscovered country or even knocking the world completely off its hinges. Sometimes that can happen even with just a new word or concept for something we’ve had…
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The Purpose of Religion
In asking about the purpose of religion, it is necessary to ask first if religion is not simply a product of our own search for purpose? The answer to the primary question depends on whether we perceive religion as having a divine origin or if we see it as the origin of divine thinking. Either…
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The Implications of the Mind in Matter: The Prospect of Oblivion
Posted on Helium under: The fundamentals of self-awareness The mind is an inherently fascinating and difficult subject to pin down. Philosophers have been musing over the mysteries of the mind for thousands of years but it is, without doubt, the scientists who find it the most frustrating to study. The subjective nature of the mind…
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