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Idiot Philosophy: December 2013
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AND THE TALE OF THE ZEN BAPTIST. Monday, December 30, 2013. Maybe they really do think that by changing the way we talk (by controlling speech), they can miraculously change the behavior? I’m not quite sure. What does seem obvious though, is that until we back the conversation up to point of actual root cause, we’re going to see endless arm waving over ideas that won’t change anything and see further division of the political bases. How far does this issue stretch between the classes?
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Idiot Philosophy: Rorty's Antipodeans
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AND THE TALE OF THE ZEN BAPTIST. Wednesday, November 21, 2012. From Rorty's book, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. But they did not explain the differences between persons and non-persons by such notions as "mind", "consciousness", "spirit", or anything of the sort. They did not explain. Which was lost to Western Terran consciousness through Plato's assimilation of. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. In their precise way, they narrowed this question down to: Do they in fact have sensations? And various ...
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Idiot Philosophy: From Libertarianism to Tyranny / A Response to [T]he Barefoot Bum, P.1
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AND THE TALE OF THE ZEN BAPTIST. Sunday, November 04, 2012. From Libertarianism to Tyranny / A Response to [T]he Barefoot Bum, P.1. Below, in “A Response to [T]he Barefoot Bum. As an example Larry stated:. I most certainly agree with that. However as the result of his vacuum reasoning throughout several articles he would like to convince us that Libertarianism effectively entails tyranny, but of course that would be exactly the sort of thing a Libertarian would object to. 8220;As I understand their posit...
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Twelve Links: Inorganic patterns of value
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Thursday, August 10, 2006. Inorganic patterns of value. Lila: An Inquiry into Morals. Pirsig, Lila, Ch.8). Pirsig goes about this "reversal" by attacking the concept of. Using a principle of empiricism - that all knowledge must come from experience - and also a kind of underdetermination argument. But if there is no substance, it must be asked, then why isn't everything chaotic? Why do our experiences act as if they inhere in something? Ibid, Ch.8). The empiricist argument points out that we have no know...
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Twelve Links: Smolin on relational physics
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Monday, August 07, 2006. Smolin on relational physics. Lee Smolin is a process physicist who I find very interesting to read. The below is from an article featured in Brockman's. The Third Culture: Beyond The Scientific Revolution -. Which you can link to here http:/ www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/z-Ch.17.html. In which he talks about a relational model of physics as having the potential to provide a theoretical basis for the elusive quantum theory of gravity. Bold italics are my emphasis:. This is ...
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Twelve Links: August 2006
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006. Some more thoughts about "values" as providing a descriptive basis of a workable paradigm. In retrospective terms, we could say that evolution is the creation of valuable. Information through selective replication and innovation. That is, information - and its phenotypic extension - that survives environmental pressures becomes valuable by virtue of its being successfully propagated. Which pursues this same naturalisation. Pirsig, Lila, Ch11). Note: So Dynamic Quality has to c...
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Twelve Links: Suffering succotash
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Monday, August 14, 2006. Further thoughts on karma, suffering and evolution. I have linked the. Aspect of karma with suffering by virtue of the. Element of evolution (biological and cultural). The flip-side of this condition of suffering is the clinging to patterns in the face of the. Thus we have the twin barbs of suffering:. Wanting things to change when they are constrained to stay the same. Wanting things to stay the same when they are driven to change. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Twelve Links: Latest stats on the Evolution vs Creation debate in the U.S.
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Thursday, August 17, 2006. Latest stats on the Evolution vs Creation debate in the U.S. From New Scientist today - "Why doesn't America believe in evolution? By Jeff Hecht. (Not sure how Intelligent Design figures in these stats):. Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals: true or false? Vol 313, p 765). That's despite a series of widely publicised advances in genetics, including genetic sequencing, which shows strong overlap of the human genome with those of chimpanze...
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Twelve Links: Quantum Darwinism
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Thursday, August 24, 2006. If one major thesis running through this blog is panrelationalism then another is the applicability of the basic premises of the Darwinian theory of evolution to almost any area of inquiry. Below is an article published in nature.com. In 2004 describing how Wojciech Zurek and colleagues have attempted to show how a Darwin-like process of selective propagation of information can be used to describe the transition from quantum to "preferred" classical states:. If it wasn't for qu...