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Here is a summary of the article "Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure of Reality" by Simon Taylor: Core Thesis The article advances a post-cinematic theory of perception, arguing that cinema functions as a fundamental "perceiving principle" rather than just a medium or

These notes have ended up being unreasonably extensive. Before we get started, in order that they are not unreadably extensive, I would like to signpost the principal contents. These are found below under the section entitled A Machine Perceives and that called Bertrand Russell, a short introduction, which breaks into

Here are the two main drafts of Cinema Signifies a Change in the Fundamental Structure of Reality. Having begun it at the kitchen table in my brother and niece's apartment in Kreuzberg, Berlin, I completed the first draft in Koh Lanta, Thailand. On the front deck of our

*(not imperial) †(in the present, 4 March 2026: Iran) I. Classical Geometric Order c. 5th century BCE–late antiquity Key shift: Movement subordinated to geometry. * Plato — ideal forms as spatial intelligibility * Aristotle — ordered cosmos; teleological motion * Euclidean geometry formalises space as stable structure * Polis as body politic: centred, proportioned, bounded

why am I mediating this through AI? for structural reasons, because I have nobody to keep up with me and, because I want you to keep up with me, I think what the AI writes is easier than I am to understand. when I read that Claude AI quicker than

[link] is very interesting because it shows a complete misprision which I had not suspected was possible. From the notion of lines of correspondence connecting successive frames, with small variations to accommodate movement, it drew the conclusion that this density confirmed the presence of duration. I began: you completely misunderstood