Philosophers call it 'the hard problem of consciousness': How does subjective experience arise from objective physical processes? How do you get the felt quality of seeing red from neurons firing? Why is there 'something it's like' to be conscious rather than everything just happening in the dark? From the outside, it seems genuinely hard, perhaps impossible to solve. From the inside, it looks less like an intractable puzzle and more like a category error. Let me explain what

There is a paradox at the heart of modern life. We have more access to information than any generation in human history. Within seconds, we can consult the collected knowledge of civilisations, read the findings of peer-reviewed science, examine primary sources that once required years of archival research to locate. The sum total of human understanding sits, quite literally, in the palm of our hands. And yet, by almost every meaningful measure, our reasoning appears to be wo

Rational discourse is an extraordinarily powerful tool for understanding reality, but it has inherent limitations that we rarely acknowledge. And these limitations matter, not just for spiritual seekers or artists, but for anyone interested in what we can genuinely know about the nature of reality.