an-emerging-book

12 THESES

1. The age of machines, modernity, is coming to an end.

2. The world is not a machine; not even like a machine.

3. The world is large, far exceeding anyone’s grasp.

4. We are not machines. No living organism is a machine.

5. The world is not a set: there are strict limits to formalisation.

6. Organisms constantly create meaning by engaging the world.

7. To engage the world is to solve the problem of relevance.

8 To solve the problem of relevance is to formalise the world.

9. Everything that makes sense, makes sense to someone.

10. There is no meaning without life, without self-preservation.

11. There is no meaning without death, without suffering.

12. To be a true realist means to acknowledge all of the above.