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Essays In Systems and Being, Volume 2

Essays In Systems and Being, Volume 2

J. A. Springs

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Writing for the World Press
Año de edición:
2026
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Filosofía
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9781966464280
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Essays in Systems and Being, Volume II gathers twelve independent essays by J. A. Springs, writer, veteran, and founder of Writing for the World Press.Moving across language, science, artificial intelligence, political history, identity, and creative practice, Springs examines how human beings construct understanding from incomplete information. A single ambiguous word becomes an inquiry into meaning. Historical beginnings reveal how arguments conceal their desired endings. Life without reliable autobiographical memory challenges assumptions about creativity and the continuity of self.Whether considering extraterrestrial existence, machine behavior, political legitimacy, ownership, songwriting, or the emotional responsibilities of a writer, Springs begins with an ordinary contradiction and follows it until the hidden structure becomes visible.These essays offer no unified doctrine. They document curiosity in motion-an independent search for the systems beneath what we know, what we create, and what we believe ourselves to be.

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