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Philosophical discussions related to metaphysics, space and time, nature, and reality.

Upcoming events: August 9, 2025 1:00 pm until 3:00 pm CDT Sequoya Madison Public Library, Madison WI. Sequoya Madison Public Library, Madison WI.

Register on Realityunbound.org. If you would like to be a panelist at this event, please let us know.
Upcoming event: August 30, 2025 1:00 pm until 3:00 pm CDT Goodman Community Library, Madison WI.

Demystifying AI: Is it the future of humanity or our demise? With E. Hughes, author of Reality Unbound: The Digital Mind (and the Nature of Reality). This book is available at both branches of Madison Public Library if you are interested in reading before the event. If you would like to participate as a speaker, please send your proposal or reach out via https://realityunbound.org/

Comments and public discourse at this event is welcome.

E. Hughes Quotes

“What options offer us is the illusion of choice.”

On Reality:

“As reality becomes more artificial, the less it resembles objective “physical” reality. It becomes abstract; the environment and social conditions becoming intangible and virtual. Socially, humankind’s immersion into the unreal, an imitation (simulation) of reality is not a conscious or willful act of defiance against reality, but a willful act of defiance against nature through technological advancement.

The arrow of time plays an important role in reality’s progression to artificial reality. Artificial realities do not retrogress to earlier states; it becomes more artificial as time moves forward, with reality becoming less tangible and increasingly more virtual (or digital) over time.”

– From The Absence of Reality: Aphorisms and Observations of the Nature of Reality and Existence by E. Hughes