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  • 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

  • The Foundations of Love: A Journey Through Mystery, Privacy, and Separation

    “In order to have love, you must have separation. In order to have separation, you must have privacy. In order to have privacy, there must be mystery. In order to have mystery, there must be… Read more

  • On Dividing Totality: The Trinitarian Mystery

    This post is intended to introduce and summarize the main concepts presented in my book, The Trinitarian Mystery: Escaping Solipsism. Process is meaningless without objects that interact, but a world of objects alone is a… Read more

  • Dissection: On Kenosis

    DissectionGod gave himself up to our dissection.An ultimate openness; a kenosis.“Leaves don’t exist as such”—sure.But can there be such a house with no foundation?Can there be haecceity all the way down?Things evolve at random when… Read more

  • Cycles of Faith and Doubt

    I am asking my way out of nothingness, through cycles of assertion and doubt. In this process, I must privilege an interior in order to exist at all—that is, to be an object of apparent… Read more

  • “Who Are You?”: Song and Analysis

    Who Are You?Who are you? What are you?Who are you? What are you looking for?Who are you?I can see I.Eye can see eye.I can see I.Who are you? What are you looking for?(Now I know,… 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.