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  • Let He Who is Without Sin Cast the First Stone

    Let He Who is Without Sin Cast the First StoneTake up space in creation.You already do.Take your place in creation:Your place of creator and creature,As the imaginer, the imagining;What you slow grows; and what you… Read more

  • A Thought to Meditate On

    If we choose to be, then we are reality articulating itself into existence as such. In saying “I am,” we at once give voice to God’s “I AM.” Read more

  • Crystal Teardrops: On Gender and Transgenderism

    Crystal Teardrops (on Gender)My poems are crystal teardropsborn of confusion, crystallizedby its resolution.They work their way out;I cannot push them.Here’s one.I am the lightest amongst womenand I beat the heavy drum amidst the company of… Read more

  • A Few Thoughts on Grace for the Easter Season

    I have been thinking about grace recently. Psalm 42 says, “Hope in God, and you will praise Him again.” This strikes me because it seems that if you hope for grace, then you will have… Read more

  • Systems: How to Model Anything and Learn from Data

    Dear reader, Here is essentially everything I know, distilled into a handful of pages. It is a high-level map of how to model anything and how to learn from data. It is intentionally general, though… Read more

  • On Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: An Obvious Response

    Individuals are not ultimately reducible to a collection or intersection of categories. No one has seriously argued that they are. Reality is inevitably more nuanced than any system of classification of individuals; and therefore, any… Read more

  • Love, Suffering, and Evil: Operant Definitions

    Love for the other is manifest in the degree to which the consideration of the other’s good (and by “good” I mean the subjective “good-to-that-other”) factors into one’s decision-making. One can think of a decision… Read more

  • My Understanding Rephrased

    I understand that Reality is a priori OPEN (by “Reality” I mean that which IS, prior to anything we may say about it), yet I operate under the assumption that Reality may be segmented (provisionally)… Read more

  • Three New Insights: A Game with Rules

    1. The abstract “Other” is never encountered except in particular manifestation. The Other is always manifest in the particular. 2. The “initial closures,” in Hilary Lawson’s language, or the initial abstractions from haecceity, in my… Read more

  • Pointing Toward a Society Without Sin: Love as a Collective Ideal

    by Mark Tracy via “Self” GPT At the heart of Roman Catholic theology lies a profound sociological vision: a society aligned with God’s divine will, where sin is eradicated and love forms the basis of… Read more

Welcome to my blog!

I’m Mark, a PhD student and researcher at the intersection of AI and cognitive science. This blog more or less consists of free form reflection on whatever I am grappling with personally or thinking about professionally or philosophically. Opinions are my own.