Thomas Murphy

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  1. A Late Evening in the Mechanosphere

    Prediction horizons and the boundaries of intelligence.

  2. Translation :: Franz von Baader - Tagebücher (1786–1793)

    I would depict each being, each individual in the bodily and spiritual world, as a single centre-point that receives and takes in, from the whole infinite periphery that forms its horizon, whatever it is able to receive.

  3. Translation :: Eschenmeyer - Grundriss der Naturphilosophie §93

    The decimal system is not some blind grasping of the human understanding. It is assuredly replicated as the most correct prototype anywhere in nature.

  4. Translation :: Gamaliel Churata - 'CXXIX' (El Pez de Oro)

    We exist in dwelling, not in insistence. One only lives alive.

  5. Translation :: Alejandra Pizarnik - 'Meeting House'

    And then she will quietly assume the habit of madness.

  6. Translation :: Santiago Dabove - 'The Memory'

    It was a continuous night—one illuminated by phosphorescence and faint flashes of escaping electric potential.

  7. Carl Friedrich Hindenburg and the Combinatorial School

    Hindenburg’s combinatorial school, its Leibnizian dream of a finite analysis, and its afterlife in Novalis.

  8. Translation :: Fernando Pessoa - 'Int[.] Occultism'

    Nor can it be said that it exists, because being and reality are categories of Number.