And how will you enquire, Socrates, into that which you do not know?What will you put forth as the subject of enquiry? And if you find what you want,how will you ever know that this is the thing which you did not know?
"everything is a unknown unknown"
Lanier, J. (2013). Who Owns the Future? Simon & Schuster. https://amzn.to/3YzotPZ
Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Practical Reason. Translated by Mary Gregor. Revised. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. 1788. Reprint, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. https://www.amazon.com/Kant-Critique-Practical-Cambridge-Philosophy/dp/1107467055/.
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I can’t help but suspect that Trump’s own explanation is closest to the mark: “I’m a very instinctual person,” he told Time magazine in 2017, “but my instinct turns out to be right.” One need not agree with the latter judgment to recognize that Trump’s account of himself rings true. He values the irrational quality of his decisions as an end in itself.
Principles are like lighthouses. They are natural laws that cannot be broken.
philosophical perspectives can drive empirical advances that the philosophy actually really matters because the perspective you have makes certain things possible that were never done before.
for - adjacency - saliency of philosophy - to science - Michael Levin
observation - working scientists often ignore philosophy because the philosophical assumptions that guide their research are implicit
for - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar - to - book - Brain Abstracted https://hyp.is/Pk3pylG9EfCJA-ent0tk-g/watermark.silverchair.com/book_9780262378628.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAygwggMkBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggMVMIIDEQIBADCCAwoGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMix-FIpy8sXHtTbl9AgEQgIIC20RZIlS1yaYHB2ymjcscJUN46IGDRankNDC3fCPGeuff7MJ6ZcjlCyNRQpGDkd5wZ1HO6ekLFmAxDsOGnaz_3SLpDgkqXGRWVLn7Y1cDpcZ3TQV_nQBTX4Fcj3iYzdmqq2kFoxlqaPOts563eydXLxsCIa7S8FbSBhqdvQgCg1lk0QBImp-SyWKLV5scbXV0FaAbRJmJeFCUKfANHsGfnSVzKvDWx77_lTh__SzxgxAqC74SKR4361Fy2I287u5plBQJwOXqbypumMnJIg_wiTzmhit6OLZhfoXMd84w5sYsCl7gnicPcWi48HzbqxD6WQyIjfNJRG2fBxJTMfq5ORFRVB7Cyfj0qhHG_9y0bxlsF9H5xNbRHyBfpttmxiPpikfi5y2j2FSu4PF4qtzQME_wtqJepiy_6cIA8PHX117aCQRHW2o4BJYq1WkERZcQta7-mNR8vDFUwV0dV3wDJazXVVG3sHhxjR1AyI8edOrM_00Og8-HUCtsNuzv_Swks1T3QsYMgwkCSX6u8RIPUbSEbzfcOXLN_KQy23lRf_zmCjRaj9EyxOPul9t0qADWkhwxlnlZ477xtPz7ePqYfCTLId5aMdSYHVBw-aYL874blz4mbgz-BXpjfni0pNpeAePVVQWRC16k6xpDHtyOpVix4nb8-SazTQuQEKRBLQgmmf76Z_oVmAtuG_Cnex0cM8G-GATTlL7hq_v7E0X5UQfnLli1tu7KHI9qY68ymaSKZXHhII5u3rQ6z7XtJxLDsEAEc9LiMRb-pC7ssE_BI6C37_6G1SvZBp0A3FKjIJ57tjM6Oku3mmvoCLDBs7DxoGMPn-EWEwDXBwGQXYOfkVUC66K-qRXp7hG8YCtztv_4CL5HxynskORGznC1y0B0IvBxCVHkWgMuBKgLOPOTzzMZVU32XZVdXy_WdKuw02k6nUhbMvH0TOvKZv1QLWypzMU0HlWuPbGttUX6
Like a parent cannot care as much about other people’s children as about their own — and in fact, that would be a betrayal of their parental task — they can care about other people’s children while prioritizing their own
for - comparison - America first philosophy - vs - Parents caring for their own children first
individualism
The Californian Ideology by [[Richard Barbrook]], and [[Andy Cameron]] on 1 September 1995
science tells us that kids learn better from one from zero from the birth to five years old they're the fastest they're the best at learning model them then just do what they do you can't get better than that
for - stats - natural language acquisition - 1 to 2 year old is age of fastest and best learning
comment - ALG philosophy - replicate the experiences that 1 to 2 year olds have
With its "no downstream hacks" and "upstream first" approach, it acts as a cutting-edge catalyst to push open-source technologies we love forward.
Arendt’s warning is clear: if we do not think, we risk becoming complicit in the world’s failures.
for - embodied philosophy - Deep Humanity - philosophy - Hannah Arendt
Local writers host ‘typewriter revivals’ by [[Algernon D'Ammassa Las Cruces Bulletin]]
Such slipperiness is a universal theme in the natural sciences: definitions are a human conceit, not a natural occurrence. Look at colors; we have definitions for what the wavelength cutoff is for orange versus red, but that boundary was a choice, not something observed. Blue light and red light are two flavors of the same thing, just with different wavelengths. And all the colors in between literally lie along a spectrum; one blends smoothly into the next with no sharp steps to discern between them.It’s not hard to come up with many more examples: sex, gender, political affiliation, species, and more. All of these exist on a spectrum. The differences are obvious between examples at opposite ends of a spectrum, tempting you to put them in a binary category, but when you compare any two samples close together on that spectrum, the differences are far harder to tease out. So where do you draw the line?Humans like putting things in clear-cut categories, but in general, nature isn’t so picky. Acknowledging that can make life a lot easier and help us understand the universe—and ourselves—better.
for - from - MIT Press Direct - The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience - M. Chirimuuta - 2024 - https://hyp.is/oeRL9t8REe-06ZvevM0y8g/direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5741/The-Brain-AbstractedSimplification-in-the-History - to - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar - https://hyp.is/3XW2ct8mEe-Fj79NfLEaZQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwNHW4otoJQ
three simplifying strategies
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three simplifying strategies - MATHEMATICS / QUANTIFICATION - counting - When you count a series of objects, there is an underlying assumption of a simplification and abstraction of reality that eliminates all the variability that is present in real systems in nature - This is especially true in biology - To count "objects you are making the assumption that the similarities between them are what matters and you can ignore the differences that are usually there - So in applying the most basic ideas of mathematics, counting, we are already making a big assumption that abstracts away a lot of natural variability - statistics - once again, a lot of variability is simply bypassed - - - REDUCTION - studying a part of a living system in isolation of the living system - in vitro instead of - in vivo - We reduce the number of natural variables by restricting to an artificial lab environment - Processes can work well within the non-natural, highly constrained test environment but the results may not match with the same process in the natural environment when all the natural variability is present - ANALOGIES / METAPHORS
haptic realism
for - haptic realism - definition - Mazviita Chirmuuta - SOURCE - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar
definition - haptic realism - Mazviita Chirimuuta - While mainstream scientific realism suggests that if a scientific theory is mature and supported by strong empirical evidence, then that scientific representation can be taken as the literal truth of how things exactly are. - In contrast, haptic realism, as the name "haptic" suggests, holds that the observer (human agent) through human touching / sensing of the aspect of nature studied plays an important role in contributing to the scientific representation. - In other words, the observer cannot simply be ignored and scientific truth has a kind of built-in degree of constructivism and relativism that depends on the perspectival frame of the observer - The many processes that occur when scientists are generating their theories creates simplifying models that strip away the complexities of reality but can be characterized by one perspective view - The scientist is situated and has his/her own unique - Lebenswelt (lifeworld), - perspective - instrumentation - narrative - to the observation and theoretical construction of the measured / observed data - But this is only one of many potential constructions - In this sense, haptic realism considers that the "objective" scientific reality is a partnership between - that which is observed - the modality of observing (instrumentation, techniques) - the linguistic words and constructed narratives using those words
there will be multiple ways that you can strip away complexity that give you different perspectives on that one same Target system
for - quote - on haptic realism - there are multiple ways that you can strip away complexity that give you different perspectives on that one same target system - SOURCE - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar
there is no fundamental objectivity because the scientist is always bring bringing um its his or her interests uh and perspective and Tool making and strategies and these in in essence mold their questions into the questions that they can answer because they need to be able to mold them and so there is no objective uh window into reality in that in that case no scientific realism
for - quote - there is no fundamental objectivity because the scientist is always bringing his or her own interests, perspectives, toolmaking and strategies and these in essence mold their questions that they can answer - SOURCE - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar
that doesn't mean that science transcends if you like the human standpoint and we see things with a God's eye view if that's what we mean by objective then I would say no it's not objective
for - quote - It doesn't mean that science transcends, if you like the human standpoint and we see things with a God's eye view. If that's what we mean by objective then I would say no, it's not objective - SOURCE - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar
M. Chirimuuta
for - from - Chapter 9 of book - The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience - M. Chirimuuta - 2024 - https://hyp.is/Ne0vsN8TEe-0gKfJ_-CHFQ/watermark.silverchair.com/c008400_9780262378628.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAA1AwggNMBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggM9MIIDOQIBADCCAzIGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMQiuxj5ADRMKA_9kUAgEQgIIDA4n2hqWRY4iDrmrcDrCx6YjsLiXeoqGBMrezs_kymEj3y1Jqh_UlW5WfGUNhBfTC5IpUGikuqBzjC9_UepW_n-SIy8wOnvMB8W08sihzohH-Dzof0oothB7tfYDAZJe04dVrYtUetmqDpi53kj_LaU6h3UNR9ZZpc8KFqtL_0IGhnMT8wvJiknRHbD-SXDTiVAFAzRGKqckrbrrm4KDfIjCpbBRa1QaRVoTIgo0Kwp4J8Mb9KNA0czcYDBkL4vjLBNZY-a0VdIJlYAzbyHeLOtugVKGmq1Lfu8K1zMNEi6HMthJDxRx9Kmv3Jbgy0hi7_dcwkURYj4VuBDU24DihiwMlXYgkl3uAop9jwd-fvlbExhBUD_FoR4kmq4iegAr62meXal4dvA2BwJIv_zISyqP3ez4LEZZpGp1r3OCq1bK4r-ono7w0h3VOCkBXq2BWUy4lb2Norec7yGcWxYLf3bvMJyxxRVKjcpV4us6IlDg6bLE5a2YCp9uh8vdZC_YjH-bkHUnxIapqN4D1iCvRUhtG9mvlnx4PBPZPUSTKEf9AxvVOp2nST27YGVUbKU8Qq6J6y5hD7vhTqx9-YjinBxOw2FH_hVL1ZgDSpO-glVzORMJRI1WYUz_w7Kfc3eG3OBVB6amY7_FULAqhtICn_N1Xao-hAFAkfIEk0MMQd0XkGIMtsRKUL_5Rhzw_kGnHMnWFCCVdlt1LKGvkDqo_0kxYB1aKEUiykx8nsmZOksso2VCRTXBhBMcsrDmOpBM4zKPpbi0qfRwPEJmQ2JkhNoVFhSJvdmJ8yoAd4ZH6i--LohA_TCmrD-wE6hjCDrmm9VbwYqyLXslzulCS_9IQBG9k_jMZ5doqutYbJs6UrpWHcYqKeT0HKbzPWGp3uMmDTvs-YUyUkmwTxH7GTlaNC5eUJ64sQt7-GhcqbPq30Pe5tLvX2ztPyln1uiuH9GBY_RiXWR2JMmYz46Kue3Iu35mJCKpfNWTO-z41USYMNMMjlB0jgsUGT0BzedInF9UvZ31M9Q - to - pdf of book - The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience - M. Chirimuuta - 2024
for - from - MIT Press Direct - The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience - M. Chirimuuta - 2024 - https://hyp.is/oeRL9t8REe-06ZvevM0y8g/direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5741/The-Brain-AbstractedSimplification-in-the-History - to - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar - https://hyp.is/3XW2ct8mEe-Fj79NfLEaZQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwNHW4otoJQ
for - from - search - Google - fallacy of misplaced concreteness - search results of interest - 2025, Jan 30 - https://hyp.is/oeRL9t8REe-06ZvevM0y8g/direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5741/The-Brain-AbstractedSimplification-in-the-History - to - The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience - M. Chirimuuta - 2024 - https://hyp.is/oeRL9t8REe-06ZvevM0y8g/direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5741/The-Brain-AbstractedSimplification-in-the-History
for - Youtube - book review - Reviewing "The Brain Abstracted - Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience" - M. Chirimuuta - Youtube channel: Philosophy of Psychiatric Diagnoses - 2025 Jan 23
I think the book is fantastic I'm now going to outlined review of a book and then at the end briefly point out some potential implications for psychiatric diagnosis and neurodiversity
for - implications of book "The Brain Abstracted" for neurodiversity - SOURCE - Youtube - book review - Reviewing "The Brain Abstracted - Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience" - M. Chirimuuta - Youtube channel: Philosophy of Psychiatric Diagnoses - 2025 Jan 23
My Grading Philosophy Equity in education is a core belief for me, and I do my best to ensure students have the most equitable experience they can with me.As current and future teachers, we all must think about how best to support each of our students and their learning processes.Grades are often the least meaningful part of your learning process. I want the content, conversations, and experiences among students to be the highest priority. A growing body of research indicates that traditional grading works best for people who’ve learned how to “do school.” Letter grades alone don’t tell me or you enough about what you’ve learned. They also disadvantage many students.The class aims to give you more voice and choice in your grades. It considers that we all have different educational goals and various responsibilities that pull at our time. This will not lower my expectations for the students in this class or my belief in what you can learn. The focus will be on integrating your learning into your professional life. I will look for self-reflection, deep thinking, and the accuracy of your content knowledge. Please immerse yourself in the content from this class and apply it to your work with children. I want you to enjoy the class and learning. Less focus on grades and more on feedback will lessen stress and promote more engagement with the materials. I hope you will engage with the feedback from me and your classmates to nurture crucial skills that can be used across all your courses and in your careers.
Prof. Taylor, the part I have seclected above is almost my educational philosophy, I deeply agree with it and will practice it in my future career. You are my role model and example, I am so lucky to be your student. Thank you.
in Vermont, Native Americans lived here—well, like everywhere in North America—they lived here in Vermont for over ten thousand years. The ecosystem was basically intact, and that’s because they had that ethical system built into their fundamental cultural assumptions—the assumptions that guided their lives. They didn’t think about them. They didn’t question them. They were simply the assumptions, the unthought assumptions.
for - philosophy matters! - biodiversity crisis - 10,000 years of preservation vs 100 years of clearcut - David Hinton - comparison - polycrisis - climate crisis - two unthought assumptions - philosophical differences - Indigenous people of Vermont vs European settlers - from - Emergence Magazine - interview - An Ethics of Wild Mind - David Hinton
comparison - polycrisis - climate crisis - biodiversity crisis - Indigneous people of Vermont - vs European settlers - unthought assumptions - unthought assumptions of Indigenous people took care of forests for 10,000 years - unthought assumptions of European settlers clear cut all the forests in 100 years - These are philosophical differences - PHILOSOPHY MATTERS!
Drawing on ancient wisdom can help co-create systems that prioritise ecological reverence and community over individualistic domination
for - post - LinkedIn - How Chinese Philosophy Offers Pathways to a Regenerative Future - Man Fang - Post Growth Institute - to - Medium - Rediscovering Harmony: How Chinese Philosophy Offers Pathways to a Regenerative Future - By foregrounding relationships — between individuals, communities, and the natural world — we can build systems that prioritize wellbeing and resilience - Post Growth Institute - Man Fang
to - Medium - Rediscovering Harmony: How Chinese Philosophy Offers Pathways to a Regenerative Future - By foregrounding relationships — between individuals, communities, and the natural world — we can build systems that prioritize wellbeing and resilience - Post Growth Institute - Man Fang - https://hyp.is/a2HCSrlTEe-um4thfDGo-A/medium.com/postgrowth/rediscovering-harmony-how-chinese-philosophy-offers-pathways-to-a-regenerative-future-07a097b237a0
Rediscovering Harmony: How Chinese Philosophy Offers Pathways to a Regenerative Future
for - from - post - LlinkedIn - Rediscovering Harmony: How Chinese Philosophy Offers Pathways to a Regenerative Future - Post Growth Institute - Man Fang
from - post - LinkedIn - Rediscovering Harmony: How Chinese Philosophy Offers Pathways to a Regenerative Future - Post Growth Institute - Man Fang - https://hyp.is/C8v8mLlSEe-aUfeerj7pSg/www.linkedin.com/posts/post-growth-institute_chinese-philosophy-regenerative-futures-ugcPost-7273235520824979456-DOqk/
Philosophers could become as popular as the hottest fitness influencers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people
"Religion is the opium of the people." — Karl Marx German: "Die Religion [...] ist das Opium des Volkes" Full sentence (with context): "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
Its roots, though, don’t just lie in explicitly Christian tradition. In fact, it’s possible to trace the origins of the American prosperity gospel to the tradition of New Thought, a nineteenth-century spiritual movement popular with decidedly unorthodox thinkers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James. Practitioners of New Thought, not all of whom identified as Christian, generally held the divinity of the individual human being and the priority of mind over matter. In other words, if you could correctly channel your mental energy, you could harness its material results. New Thought, also known as the “mind cure,” took many forms: from interest in the occult to splinter-Christian denominations like Christian Science to the development of the “talking cure” at the root of psychotherapy. The upshot of New Thought, though, was the quintessentially American idea that the individual was responsible for his or her own happiness, health, and situation in life, and that applying mental energy in the appropriate direction was sufficient to cure any ills.
Ryan Holiday says that our society struggles with accepting that we owe things to other people...
This reminds me of Simone Weil's notion of "no rights, only responsibilities"... A right by itself has no power, only obligation has. A right is an obligation toward us fulfilled. Only other people have rights, and we have obligations.
Getting into this frame of mind allows one to live a far more righteous and fulfilled as well as calm life. Once you acknowledge that you have no rights, you can not cling to them, and thus you don't view things as unfair to you.
Stoicism is about taking the thorn out of your own eye before throwing stones at others.
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he English education does notencourage learners to think. They are generally told toreproduce the ideas of others, and, unless the questioncomes straight out of the Text-book, they often findthemselves quite unable to answer it.
This statement follows the broad thesis that imitation is far easier than innovation.
The lesson surely is that to emphasise, in this way, anIdea which is felt to be important, is not an automaticprocess to most people ; it is not done instinctively, andby the light of nature. They may feel that the Ideaought to be Emphasised, but they do not know themeans.
They haveto move step by step and with effort over the groundwhich the genius covers with a flying leap.
Accounts of situated action in creative contexts can be observed in jazz improvisation where the musician pulls from pre-existing repertoire of musical ideas to respond spontaneously to a highly dynamic environment.
similarly, Margaret Boden assigns this situated action into the conceptual space; in any field, there are underlying structures a person pulls from to create "spontaneously" - jazz, chess, and molecular structures are examples;
carl sagan famously relayed that we are all stardust; all of creation is the remix of the same chemicals that make up the entire universe.
Studies have shown that novel properties can emerge from conceptual combination of existing ideas [48].
novelty itself, similar to innovation or progress are value-driven terms that often have positive connotations; as designers, we may assume that novelty is always good; there are numerous examples of 'dark' or 'immoral' examples of creativity; this is especially poignant now at the intersection of creativity and technology due to how "creative" scam artists are becoming or how "creative" a scam is;
others posit that rather than value being inherently good, value can be assigned if it's *effective as a means to it's intended end" see Explicating ‘creativity’, Paisley Livingston
The tool-mediated expert activity view of creative work focuses on supporting (expert) creative practices through tools. Activity theory
There are many philosophical theories that explore computers as a tool that are extensions of humans. In some circles, humans have become cyborgs in that sense - they cannot be separated from the tools they use every single day.
flow
in this context, flow is a psychological state of being completely absorbed in a activity that feels both effortless and challenging.
the full manuscript is dense, yet thoughtful and engaging.
Csikszentmihalyi’s characterization of creativity as flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihaly's work is deeply influential in psychology, education, and HCI because he discusses how one can achieve higher levels of happiness by engaging in activities they find meaningful.
Boden’s conception of creativity as “exploration and play”
Margaret Boden, research professor at University of Sussex, has provided pivotal work in the exploration of creativity using interdisciplinary research across music, game, story, physics, and artificial intelligence to explore human creativity in arts, science, and life.
The Logic of Care
Work by ethnographer Annamarie Mol; in this context, the authors emphasize that understanding action in context involves exploring the rationale that guides the practice.
diffraction
refers to how social theories and scientific approaches can enhance one another, leading to a more nuanced understanding of both.
Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter
Harding
the authors cite Sarah Harding, a feminist, antiracist philosopher who pioneered 'standpoint theory' to describe research based on experiences of people who have been excluded from knowledge creation in the past.
epistemic positions
epistemic position is not simply limited how one approaches the topic of knowledge; in this context, the authors build upon previous frameworks that introduce the concept of epistemic positions to explore how knowledge is unequally valued, especially in regard to race and gender, in academia.
Epistemic injustice and epistemic positioning: towards an intersectional political economy
epistemology
the study of knowledge; a matter of understanding what knowledge is, and how to distinguish between cases in which someone knows something and cases in which someone doesn't know something. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
cognitive emergence
to generate new ideas, make associations, combine concepts in relation to ideation activities.
embodied action
to engage with physical knowledge gained through experience and the material world around us.
feminist epistemology
loosely organized approach to the study of knowledge stemming from feminist theory about gender and traditional epistemology (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy); here, the author utilizes this framework as a tool to challenge common assumptions that knowledge, or definitions of creativity, are entirely objective, as social factors like gender, race, and class tend to inform who is seen as a "knower".
I can firmly recommend runit if you want a server-focused, reliable init system based on the traditional Unix philosophy.
But the ruliad took things to another level. For now I could see that the very laws of physics we know were determined by the way we are as observers. I’d always imagined that the laws of physics just are the way they are. But now I realized that we could potentially derive them from the inevitable structure of the ruliad, and very basic features of what we’re like as observers.
And so it was, soon after my birthday in 2019, that we embarked on our Physics Project. It was a mixture of computer experiments and big concepts. But before the end of 2019 it was clear: it was going to work! It was an amazing experience. Thing after thing in physics that had always been mysterious I suddenly understood. And it was beautiful—a theory of such strength built on a structure of such incredible simplicity and elegance.
A major theme of my work since the early 1980s had been exploring the consequences of simple computational rules. And I had found the surprising result that even extremely simple rules could lead to immensely complex behavior. So what about the universe? Could it be that at a fundamental level our whole universe is just following some simple computational rule?
I’ve spent my life alternating between technology and basic science, progressively building a taller and taller tower of practical capabilities and intellectual concepts (and sharing what I’ve done with the world). Five years ago everything was going well, and making steady progress. But then there were the questions I never got to. Over the years I’d come up with a certain number of big questions. And some of them, within a few years, I’d answered. But others I never managed to get around to.
the wonderful thing about children is that they are natural philosophers
for - Deep Humanity - children as natural philosophers - children - are naturally philosophers
Losing to evil intentions is indeed a big problem in the world. Thanks for your comment, Import Reaction Video.
Philosophy & religion should inherently be taught in education, which would partially solve this problem. Ethics. Morality.
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Kurutz, Steven. “Now You Can Read the Classics With A.I.-Powered Expert Guides.” The New York Times, June 13, 2024, sec. Style. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/style/now-you-can-read-the-classics-with-ai-powered-expert-guides.html.
To aid your attempt to process and capture information in the fast-paced environment of a lecture, you need an efficient, fill-in-the-blanks format that you can rely on to simplify the decision of how to record the results of this process. As you know, I’m fond of the Question/Evidence/Conclusion format described in Straight-A.
E.g. <br> Q: How is Cato the Younger stoic? <br> E: He chose to commit s*icide instead of surrendering to Caesar.<br> C: Cato the Younger is disciplined and follows his principles. He'd rather die than live a degraded life <br>
Note: I may not be right,
Despite growing interest, the effects of AI on the news industry and our information environment — the public arena — remain poorly understood. Insufficient attention has also been paid to the implications of the news industry’s dependence on technology companies for AI. Drawing on 134 interviews with news workers at 35 news organizations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany —
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I sometimes see this in YouTube comments. When I recommend Plato to beginners in philosophy, I am told that I am being irresponsible, because Plato is too difficult for a beginner. It would be better to recommend a comprehensive survey of philosophy explicitly written for beginners, the critics say, so that people don’t get overwhelmed. But then I see other comments, sometimes on YouTube but often elsewhere, from people who had never read any philosophy, stumbled on one of my videos, and read Plato. Sometimes these are high school students, sometimes college graduates who did not study philosophy, sometimes mid-career adults who didn’t bother with college. The message is remarkably similar. They were previously convinced that philosophy would be too difficult to them, and reading Plato helped them see that they were wrong.
Self-fulfilling prophecy?
“Both the optimist and the pessimist contribute to society: the optimist invents the airplane, and the pessimist invents the parachute.”
Humane Values: “What are humane values, anyway?” (a problem for philosophy & ethics) The Technical Alignment Problem: “How can we make AI robustly serve any intended goal at all?” (a problem for computer scientists - surprisingly, still unsolved!)
Interesting. For me, humane values would be doing the right thing and helping people. I think Stoic philosophy resembles "humane values" in my regard.
A human may or may not be humane
Strongly Agree
for - Alfred North Whitehead - philosophy - process
Summary - This is a very insightful presentation of Whitehead's process philosophy. It's the first time I was introduced to it via Gyuri but I can see why he wanted to. I could identify many parallels with SRG and Deep Humanity ideas.
The use of use mythos to critique logos “became one of the central traditions of German philosophy since the nineteenth century.”
After 1836 Chaadayev continued to write articles on cultural and political issues "for the desk drawer." Chaadayev defies categorization; he was not a typical Russian Westernizer due to his idiosyncratic interest in religion; nor was he a Slavophile, even though he offered a possible messianic role for Russia in the future. He had no direct followers, aside from his "nephew" and amanuensis, Mikhail Zhikharev, who scrupulously preserved Chaadayev's manuscripts and tried to get some of them published after Chaadayev's death. Chaadayev's lasting heritage was to remind Russian intellectuals to evaluate any of Russia's supposed cultural achievements in comparison with those of the West.
Cahoone, Lawrence. The Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descartes to Derrida - Course Guidebook. The Great Courses 4790. Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2010. https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/modern-intellectual-tradition-from-descartes-to-derrida.
Cahoone, Lawrence. The Modern Intellectual Tradition: From Descartes to Derrida. Audible Audio Edition. The Great Courses 4790. Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2013. https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Intellectual-Tradition-Descartes-Derrida/dp/B00DTO5BTO.
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. Positivism asserted that allcultures move through progressive stages of development: first the-ological, then metaphysical, and finally “positive.”
Some people never realise what their purpose in life is before leaving . For some, it takes half of their life to find their purpose in life, And then they're the lucky ones that find it at an early part of their life.
Shall find it–being grown perfect–in himself. Believing, he receives it when the soul Masters itself, and cleaves to Truth, and comes– Possessing knowledge–to the higher peace,
Arjuna struggles with moral decisions while serving his country. Jnana Yoga, often known as the "Yoga of Knowledge," is a highly profound kind of yoga that emphasizes realizing one's own transience and pursuing self-realization. Arjuna's journey through this Yoga illustrates the transformational potential of knowledge by serving as a metaphor for the seeker's journey towards enlightenment. In the face of adversity facing the challenges of line ones Dharma must still be fulfilled. This understanding reveals the moral and ethical beliefs Hindu philosophies operated by. Nonetheless philosophy like this can be applied to our own lives. Regardless of the mountain present in front of us, it is important that we seek and fulfill our life's purpose. .
I believe that we all wish our course could be determined by ourcollective values, ethics, and morals.
the collective "we" here must broadly be the West, but even there our values, ethics, and morals aren't all the same. Things devolve further and more quickly beyond the cis-gendered white male perspective which Joy represents here.
Hellinger told how one of the trainers asked the group, "What is more important to you, your ideals or people? Which would you sacrifice for the other?"
direct attribution?<br /> likely in <br /> Hellinger, B., Weber, G., & Beaumont, H. (1998). Love's hidden symmetry: What makes love work in relationships. Phoenix, AZ: Zeig, Tucker & Theisen. p. 328
if we had a choice what would we want to eat what brings us joy and my my strong belief
for - William Li - personal philosophy - healthy food strategy - begin by asking about favorite foods
personal philosophy - William Li - what food do you eat that already brings you joy? - find out which ones are healthy - show them it's not heavy lifting
It seems to me farmore likely that a robotic existence would not be like a human one inany sense that we understand, that the robots would in no sense be ourchildren, that on this path our humanity may well be lost.
Here would be a good place to give a solid definition of humanity? What makes it special beyond the "self"?
We are genetically very closely related to great apes and chimpanzees and less closely to dogs, cats, and even rats. Do we miss our dogicity? Or ratanity?
What if the robot/human mix is somehow even more interesting and transcendent than humanity? His negativity doesn't leave any space for this possible eventuality.
read [[Dan Allosso]] in Actual Books
Sometimes a physical copy of a book gives one information not contained in digital scans. Allosso provides the example of Charles Knowlton's book The Fruits of Philosophy which touched on abortion and was published as a tiny hand-held book which would have made it easy to pass from person to person more discretely for its time period.
there's always a little bit of novelty with each new drop of experience and so 00:17:17 there's a kind of uh reality at its fundamental basis is a kind of evolving relationship among all of these white heads technical term again 00:17:30 actual occasions of experience
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definition - actual occasion of experience - Whitehead question - does Whitehead mean that reality itself is intrinsically evolutionary in nature and that it is constantly metamorphosizing? Is he making a claim similiar to Rupert Sheldrake's morphic resonance? Or we might say Sheldrake follows Whitehead
Explanation - Whitehead's Process Relational Ontology - Passage below is explanation of Whitehead's Process Relational Ontology
whitehead says that philosophy is an attempt to express the infinity of the universe in terms of the limitations of language
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Whitehead says that
And i think this image of the spiderweb with the dewdrops each reflecting the others is the perfect analogy for whitehead's ontology
this is similar to the kind of buddhist understanding of emptiness 00:15:22 right there is no abiding self
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adjacency - between - Whitehead's philosophy - emptiness - adjacency statement - Whitehead's philosophy is similiar to the Buddhist concept of emptiness
someone from outside 00:11:06 the discipline within which they um provide some new paradigmatic understanding uh is looking at the old problems with fresh eyes
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for - Whitehead's philosophy of Organism
Deleuze, Gilles. L’Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze, avec Claire Parnet - Lecture Recording 1 - A to F, 15 December 1988. Interview by Claire Parnet. Transcript, December 15, 1988. https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/lecture/lecture-recording-1-f/.
while you can plan days, weeks, and months out—you can only get things done today
for: philosophy - of wonder, Howard L. Parsons, phenomenology - wonder, wonder - theory of
title: A Philosophy of Wonder
Suggested by The Toronto Philosophy Meetup<br /> The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800 (Pre-Read), Fri, Dec 15, 2023, 6:00 PM - Meetup
Ran across David Auerbach's blog while looking up a note on Keith Thomas.
He's got some interesting looking stuff on Hans Blumenberg in translation.
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definition: stuporism
Entering his thinking through a side door, starting with the epoche, I was less bothered than many others seem to be by Husserl's dry and long-winded writing, and his attempts to continue fighting late nineteenth century battles that most people consider to be totally outdated. Rather, I was struck by the fact that I found, smack in the middle of Western twentieth century philosophy something that I had first encountered in various ancient Asian writings, and that had transformed my life and my way of looking at the world.
he also demonstrated unfailing empathy andgenuine commitment to their progress.
this is a good start at a definition of teaching
Ancient Romans had (a lot of) slaves. Ancient Romans only allowed a tiny number of men, specifically, to vote. Ancient Romans imposed a violently enforced extractive empire around the Mediterranean and beyond. A philosophy that arose from those conditions might give me pause to emulate in a modern setting — at least, as someone who believes imperialism to be evil, slavery in all forms to be unacceptable, sexism to be harmful to all, and actual one-person-one-vote democracy to be the most reliable way of allowing some measure of self-governance by the people.
While true, I don't think the underlying evil as such played a role in whether a philosophy arose from ancient Rome, but having a large enough layer of society that can afford spending time musing and thinking or be an audience for that thinking. The source of that wealth isn't a cause even though the wealth is a prerequisite to free up time and energy. The extraction made that possible of course, and it is not much different now. BigTech probably feels resonance because it's a global extractive industry too. I remember from my Latin at school how we would read texts by certain authors where they made some nuanced ethical point, while in the same text never bothering to question slavery. Or even in the same paragraph along the lines of "you need to treat slaves as human beings", except for the keeping them enslaved part ofcourse.
There's something here about cultural appropriation across eras. The Renaissance did, claiming the mantle of the Roman civiliisation as its predecessor, and thus we in the West tend to see that as our cultural lineage. Cherry picked of course, not wholesale, as we tend to with more immediate own history too (Dutch Golden Age and the role of slave trade and colonial extraction e.g. unacknowledged but being a safe haven for religious refugees from elsewhere in Europe such as the Sefardim or Hugenots clearly embraced)
Book of Deuteronomy, Robert Altar Translation<br /> Chapters 1-11 2023-11-06 at 2:30 PM PST
And with that puerile quarrel between stubborn warlords over the right to own and to rape a girl, Western literature begins.
A stark statement that lays bare the original sin of Western thought.
the philosopher by pointing to experiences that are common to all.
This definition common "to all" presupposes an audience here, thus different cultures with different viewpoints are very likely to have radically different philosophies.
Do public intellectuals even exist anymore? Do publics exist? Everywhere you go, the forces of power seek to atomize us away into marketable metrics, Facebook groups, random and randomized individuals, software-recognizable faces. Who are we, but clicks, trends, and lifestyles. We are everything but a public.
yes I think they exist but they are hard to find. Public intellectuals do not seek to build audiences - either for the sake of social media presence or for mass appeal. They attract modest audiences of likeminded people.
even as you set out to ignore metaphysics you're probably engaged in some form of manifest physical speculation
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All Western philosophy, Whitehead once remarked, is but "a footnote to Plato";and the later Greeks themselves had a saying: "Everywhere Igo in my head, I meet Plato coming back."
See full quote: https://hypothes.is/a/TTPGtl_GEe6psRsVpOxigg
"Poetry is more philosophical than history," wrote Aristotle.By this he meant that poetry is more general, more universal.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato . I do not mean thesystematic scheme of thought which scholars have doubtfully extractedfrom his writings . I allude to the wealth of general ideas scattered throughthem . His personal endowments, his wide opportunities for experience ata great period of civilization, h is inheritance of an intellectual traditionnot yet stiffened by excessive systematization, have made h is writings t aninexhaustible mine of suggestion
Whitehead, Alfred North. Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (Gifford Lectures, Delivered in The University of Edinburgh during the Session 1927-1928). Edited by David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherburne. 2nd edition, Corrected. 1929. Reprint, New York: Free Press, 1978.
In many ways, mail server stacks represent a collision between the tools and values of the early internet — self-hosting open source software using well-defined standards and interoperable protocols — and the reality of the modern internet — a few centralized, trusted authorities.
Doto, Bob. “Inspired Destruction: How a Zettelkasten Explodes Thoughts (So You Can Have New Ones).” Personal blog. Writing by Bob Doto (blog), September 13, 2023. https://writing.bobdoto.computer/inspired-destruction-how-a-zettelkasten-explodes-thoughts-so-you-can-have-newish-ones/.
A rhizome is a concept in post-structuralism describing a nonlinear network that "connects any point to any other point".[1] It appears in the work of French theorists Deleuze and Guattari, who used the term in their book A Thousand Plateaus to refer to networks that establish "connections between semiotic chains, organizations of power, and circumstances relative to the arts, sciences and social struggles" with no apparent order or coherency.
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Philosophical Writings. Edited and translated by Steven Tester. SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy, 1.0. State University of New York Press, 2012.
Les Éleuthéromanes
formed by Greek words mean freedom and madness
what this is supposed to be what this is supposed to be is um a framework that moves these kind of 00:15:43 questions questions of uh cognition of sentience of uh of of um intelligence and so on from the area of philosophy where people have a lot of philosophical feelings and preconceptions about what things can do 00:15:56 and what things can't do and it really uh really stresses the idea that you you can't just have feelings about this stuff you have to make testable claims
子为鲁司寇。子路问曰：「有岛焉，其车驱以电，行于轨，离则覆。今有五民缚于干，一民支，车过则民卒。若御者为夫子，将从干也欤？将从支也欤？」曰：「典守者不得辞其责。」对曰：「事急，民将罔矣。」曰：「有君乎？有亲乎？有师友乎？有则改行与支焉。」子路异之：「使支者死，可乎？」子曰：「殆哉求也。根而后干，干而后枝，枝而后叶。根干不存，枝叶焉附？此远近主次之序也。君子近亲而近人之亲，故能老老，幼幼也。岂有远于亲者能近于人也？」子路问曰：「为吾之亲而杀人之亲，非私也？」子曰：「非杀人也，为救亲也，救亲可罪乎？缚民者有罪，车无羁有罪，救亲者何罪？罪在典守！」时赐、回过庭，赐资回肉回，皆不受。子曰：「赐尝负重债。列其父兄妻子于左右，欲死之，令赐择一而释。然非赐，回邻也。回救之，何以对？」回曰：「邻者不仁，债害其家；贷者无识，资诸无赖。吾师为司寇，诛少正卯，请诉之。」曰：「奈电车之辩何？」乃言于回。回曰：「知矣，救人也，当赏。」子贡笑曰：「无杀人之过，反有救人之功乎？」回曰：「救人，性也，不为赏，不辞赏。使有司赏善，则为善者愈多，罚恶，则为恶者愈寡。」子击节而叹。后遂有子路受牛事。
followers of Spinoza adopted his definition of ultimate substance as that which can exist and can be conceived only by itself. According to the first principle of his system of pantheistic idealism, God (or Nature or Substance) is the ultimate reality given in human experience.
Historically, answers to this question have fallen between two extremes. On the one hand is the skepticism of the 18th-century empiricist David Hume, who held that the ultimate reality given in experience is the moment-by-moment flow of events in the consciousness of each individual. That concept compresses all of reality into a solipsistic specious present—the momentary sense experience of one isolated percipient.
two basic forms of idealism are metaphysical idealism, which asserts the ideality of reality, and epistemological idealism, which holds that in the knowledge process the mind can grasp only the psychic or that its objects are conditioned by their perceptibility.
idealism, in philosophy, any view that stresses the central role of the ideal or the spiritual in the interpretation of experience. It may hold that the world or reality exists essentially as spirit or consciousness, that abstractions and laws are more fundamental in reality than sensory things, or, at least, that whatever exists is known in dimensions that are chiefly mental—through and as ideas.
A good theory explains, predicts, and delights!
Sutton and Staw (1995) enlist parts of an article that are not theory that are: references, data, list of variables or constructs, diagrams, hypotheses or prediction (p. 372-377):
Sutton, Robert I; Staw, Barry M. (1995). What Theory is Not. Administrative Science Quarterly; Sep 1995; 40, 3; ABI/INFORM Global pg. 371 Retrieved from https://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/15341_Readings/Doctoral_Resources/Sutton_Staw_What%20theory%20is%20not.pdf
the number one and most important reason why research is meaningful and makes a useful and valuable contribution is theory.
(1) Why is theory so critical and for whom? (2) What does a good theory look like? (3) What does it mean to have too much or too many theories? (4) When don’t we need a theory? (5) How does falsification work with theory? and (6) Is good theory compatible with current publication pressures?
This is six question to understand the state of art of a theory
published article can be cited as below:
Sacha Golob (2019) A New Theory of Stupidity, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 27:4, 562-580, DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2019.1632372
One of the core principles of Hermetic philosophy is the principle of Mentalism, which states that all things are created from and expand from the mind.
Possibilianism is a philosophy which rejects both the idiosyncratic claims of traditional theism and the positions of certainty in atheism in favor of a middle, exploratory ground. The term was first defined by neuroscientist David Eagleman in relation to his book of fiction Sum. Asked whether he was an atheist or a religious person on a National Public Radio interview in 2009, he replied "I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.
I mentioned that I knew I liked Zettelkasten within the first 30 minutes. I think it might be important that when I sat down to try it, I had an idea I was excited to work on. It wasn’t a nice solid mathematical idea -- it was a fuzzy idea, one which had been burning in the back of my brain for a week or so, waiting to be born. It filled the fractal branches of a zettelkasten nicely, expanding in every direction.
abramdemski suggests starting with an idea you're interested in working on and fleshing out when you start your zettelkasten. This harkens back to Montessori teaching philosophies.
Are there better reasons for pursuing your education than getting a job? What are they?
Education is so much more than preparing for a future job. The purpose of education is to understand the world around us. We are always in an endless pursuit of knowledge. We cannot know everything, but we will surely try. Education helps us expand our minds and understand complex ideas. This passage challenges the reason why we seek further knowledge. To see education as not just an end goal for a job but to see education as a means to understand the mystery of the world around us.
thats how relationships built. also, i now desperately crave to be in a qpr.
mythological legitimization of transness. positions being trans as inherently revolutionary, i think. we are children of Lilith and must embrace The Slime™.
The chief exponent of the view that times have changedand that our conception of the best education must changewith them is that most misunderstood of all philosophers ofeducation, John Dewey.
Hutchins indicates that John Dewey was misunderstood as a philosopher of education.
Science must find for every effect a single cause. The historian is rarely faced with the same requirement.Historians have the advantage of being able to live with explanatory ambiguity that would be unacceptable in science.
The sixth step, most essential as well, is to Accept the Wins
Owning the losses means also owning the wins.
The fifth step is to have Selective Memory only choose to remember the events that serve the future. Things that help to improve in the future.
It's like Marcus Aurelius wrote (in a slightly different way): "Ask yourself at any moment, is this essential?" In this way it would become: "Ask yourself at any moment, does this help me?"
The fourth step is to Apply the Reflection. Adjust behavior based on reflection. We improve not for validation, we improve for ourselves (stoic philosophy)
Document the journey in for example a journal. Make a comparison between what would be done in the past and what will be done in the future.
Data collection. Measurement.
Marginal Gains. It's sort of a daily continous Kolb's cycle but in a more lightweight form. I can already see the power in this. Absolute gem.
Could also be overwhelming if applied to a lot. therefore, use the power law and focus on what is essential to life change. (thanks Dr. Benjamin Hardy.)
The third step is to Reflect and think into the future. Extract meaning and lessons from the failure. Think about opportunities.
Reflection increases confidence. Kolb's can help with this a lot.
The second step is Sit with the loss in order to find the (root) cause of the loss or pain. Do not avoid the pain, don't distract oneself, instead embrace it and feel it.
Endurance can be trained. Comfort with uncomfortability can be trained in the same way.
Accept and sit in the fire. Embrace the turmoil.
The first step to deal with loss of any kind, be it a girlfriend, love, job, purpose, etc. Is to ACCEPT YOU LOST
Failure = Failure.
Failure is inevitable, and will be part of any learning process. Therefore it should not be avoided at all costs. It should be used to learn from. However; there is also no point in seeking failure, for if failure is not something negative, there is no point to improve (says the author at least)
The original accident is een concept van de Franse filosoof Paul Virilio, waarmee hij waarschuwt voor de onbedoelde gevolgen van technologische ontwikkeling. Uiteindelijk stuit elke technologie op een grens waardoor er een ongeval zal ontstaan, zo stelt hij. Daarmee leren we wat er verbeterd moet worden. Tegelijkertijd maakte hij zich steeds meer zorgen over de onbeheersbaarheid van technologische vooruitgang. Stevenen we af op een doomsday?
Original accident: elke tech heeft een onbedoeld gevolg, en dat leidt uiteindelijk tot een 'ongeval'. zo leer je meer over het wezen van die tech, en wat er verbeterd moet worden. Virilio vreest kennelijk dat huidige tech dev tempo te hard is om dat proces beheersbaar te laten verlopen.
https://anarch.cc/uploads/paul-virilio/the-original-accident.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Virilio
"Accidents reveal the substance"
Note: When in need of more stoic books, and appropriate editions: Refer back to this video.
není během rozhovoru možné pracovat s hypotetickými situa-cemi nebo se snažit dohadovat „co kdyby“.
Uvažováním nad hypotetickými situacemi se zabývají kontrafaktuály.
Much of Buddhist philosophy centers around this same idea, this balance between what’s being phrased as “intention” and “attention” – our intentional curiosity about knowledge and growth, and our choice of where to focus our awareness, what to pay attention to. So that, I think, is the role of information curators: They are our curiosity sherpas, who lead us to things we didn’t know we were interested in until we, well, until we are. Until we pay attention to them — because someone whose taste and opinion we trust points us to them, and we integrate them with our existing pool of resources, and they become a part of our networked knowledge and another LEGO piece in our combinatorial creativity.
My view: intention as what to gather/learn, attention as what to do in the moment, looking at a note, which makes us aware of that thing, which results into curiosity (also good entry to flow)
Science is not described by thefalsification standard, as Popper recognized and argued.4 In fact, deductive falsification isimpossible in nearly every scientific context. In this section, I review two reasons for thisimpossibility.(1) Hypotheses are not models. The relations among hypotheses and different kinds ofmodels are complex. Many models correspond to the same hypothesis, and manyhypotheses correspond to a single model. This makes strict falsification impossible.(2) Measurement matters. Even when we think the data falsify a model, another ob-server will debate our methods and measures. They don’t trust the data. Sometimesthey are right.For both of these reasons, deductive falsification never works. The scientific method cannotbe reduced to a statistical procedure, and so our statistical methods should not pretend.
Seems consistent with how Popper used the terms [[falsification]] and [[falsifiability]] noted here
Popper 1983, Introduction 1982: "We must distinguish two meanings of the expressions falsifiable and falsifiability:"1) Falsifiable as a logical-technical term, in the sense of the demarcation criterion of falsifiability. This purely logical concept — falsifiable in principle, one might say — rests on a logical relation between the theory in question and the class of basic statements (or the potential falsifiers described by them)."2) Falsifiable in the sense that the theory in question can definitively or conclusively or demonstrably be falsified ("demonstrably falsifiable")."I have always stressed that even a theory which is obviously falsifiable in the first sense is never falsifiable in this second sense. (For this reason I have used the expression falsifiable as a rule only in the first, technical sense. In the second sense, I have as a rule spoken not of falsifiability but rather of falsification and of its problems)."
A passage from [[Karl Popper]] about how he distinguishes between [[falsifiability]] and [[falsification]].
Popper's "falsification" seems related to [[Imre Lakatos]]'s notion that a [[research programme]] has a [[hard core]]
of central theses that are deemed irrefutable—or, at least, refutation-resistant—by methodological fiat. (Musgrave & Pigden 2021, SEP article linked below)
Also, what Popper calls "falsifiable"/"falsifiability" is similar to Lakatos's
[[protective belt]] of [[auxiliary hypotheses]] which has to bear the brunt of tests and gets adjusted and re-adjusted, or even completely replaced, to defend the thus-hardened core. (FMSRP: 48)
[[Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes]]
There's seems to be a curious reversal between Popper & Lakatos. The theoretical component for Lakatos (ie, the "hard core") can't be falsified, whereas the theoretical component for Popper (ie, something being "falsifiable in principle") is a
purely logical concept … [that] rests on a logical relation between the theory in question and the class of basic statements (or the potential falsifiers described by them). (Popper 1982, from passage above)
A crucial difference between Lakatos & Popper is that for Lakatos
A research programme can be falsifiable (in some senses) but unscientific and scientific but unfalsifiable. (Musgrave & Pigden 2021, SEP article linked below)
This seems in direct conflict with one of Popper's views that falsifiability can serve as a [[demarcation criterion]] for what is scientific and non-scientific.
Cf. 2.2 of "Imre Lakatos" on SEP
Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899 – May 14, 1977) was an American educational philosopher. He was president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago, and earlier dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929).
Sometimes it means telling them something they knew unconsciously but had never put into words. In fact those may be the more valuable insights, because they tend to be more fundamental.
The art of the "aha" moment.
The author, Rediscovering Analog, reads a book at least twice, usually. He first reads it mainly for pleasure, just to enjoy it and to see what's in it. During the second time, if applicable, he goes through the book using intellectual (or learning) systems and methodologies to extract value from the book.
The first pass, which the author terms Scouting, is thus namely for enjoyment, but keeping in mind what might be valuable or interesting that will be valuable in the future, basically an unguided open ear. He has a list of scouted books in each section of the Zettelkasten that might be relevant to the section. What he does is have a stack of physical cards there with just the name of the book and the author, without anything else. Then when author proceeds to extract value from the book, he takes the card out and puts it in the respective book. Afterwards throwing this particular card into the trash. It's a form of the Anti-Library.
( Personally, I would include an appropriate reading cost and a level on Adler's hierarchy of books. In addition, I would make sure that my process of orientation, in the Inquiry-Based Learning framework, has been completed before I put it as a book within the Anti-Library. )
This may not be the most efficient for the purpose of acquiring value, but efficiency is not all there is. Enjoyment is a big part of intellectual work as well, as Antonin Sertillanges argues in his book The Intellectual Life: Its spirit, methods, conditions, as well as Mihaly Csikszentmihaliy in his book Flow.
the concern of phenomenology "to explicate its ownfoundation .. requires th¢ self-reflexiveness which characterizes a self·referential theory.
My 3 Criticisms of Using UgMonk’s new ‘Analog’ Productivity System. by Jason Chatfield
The Incoherence also marked a turning point in Islamic philosophy in its vehement rejections of Aristotle and Plato.
The Incoherence of the Philosophers by al-Ghazali marks a dramatic turn in Islamic philosophy away from Aristotle and Plato which had been followed by previous Arab philosophers like Avicenna and al-Farabi.
al-Ghazali to investigate a form of theological occasionalism, or the belief that all causal events and interactions are not the product of material conjunctions but rather the immediate and present will of God.
al-Ghazali practiced a theological form of occasionalism, which suggested that God was the cause of events. This was rebutted by Averroes a century later, but al-Ghazali's influence on Islamic thought broadly won out.
the Tahāfut al-Falāsifa ("Incoherence of the Philosophers") is a landmark in the history of philosophy, as it advances the critique of Aristotelian science developed later in 14th-century Europe.[35]
Real explanations will sometimes sound weird, crazy, or too complicated because reality itself is often weird, crazy, or too complicated.
Great point
Reality is very weird, and you need to be prepared for that. Like the hypothetical Holst, most of us would be tempted to discard this argument entirely out of hand. But this weird argument is correct, because reality is itself very weird. Looking at this “contradictory” evidence and responding with these weird bespoke splitting arguments turns out to be the right move, at least in this case.
Such a great point. Often we discard what we presume to be fringe case ideas when they might true because "reality is very weird".
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Under the "More on Philosophies of Copyright" section, I recommended adding the scholarly article by Chinese scholar Peter K. Yu that explains how Chinese philosophy of Yin-Yang can address the contradictions in effecting or eliminating intellectual property laws. One of the contradictions is in intellectual property laws protecting individual rights while challenging sustainability efforts for future generations (as climate change destroys more natural resources.
Yu, Peter K., Intellectual Property, Asian Philosophy and the Yin-Yang School (November 19, 2015). WIPO Journal, Vol. 7, pp. 1-15, 2015, Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-70, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2693420
Below is a short excerpt from the article that details Chinese philosophical thought on IP and sustainability:
"Another area of intellectual property law and policy that has made intergenerational equity questions salient concerns the debates involving intellectual property and sustainable development. Although this mode of development did not garner major international attention until after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the Yin-Yang school of philosophy—which “offers a normative model with balance, harmony, and sustainability as ideals”—provides important insight into sustainable development."
How Gertrude Teaches herChildren
Swiss educator Johann Pestalozzi (1746-1827) developed a holistic teaching philosophy in How Gertrude Teaches Her Children based on John Locke's ideas and used it to open his own schools.
See copies at https://archive.org/details/texts?query=How+Gertrude+Teaches+Her+
Or, did you ever see a dog with a marrowbone in his mouth,—the beast of all other, says Plato, lib. 2, de Republica, the most philosophical? If you have seen him, you might have remarked with what devotion and circumspectness he wards and watcheth it: with what care he keeps it: how fervently he holds it: how prudently he gobbets it: with what affection he breaks it: and with what diligence he sucks it. To what end all this? What moveth him to take all these pains? What are the hopes of his labour? What doth he expect to reap thereby? Nothing but a little marrow
The description of this scene is insinuating on the importance of the little things which I believe is what the author was trying to convey when asking such questions to seeing a dog with a bone. He even refers to Plato at one point who was known as a philosophical speaker who was wise in such ideas. "Plato says that true and reliable knowledge rests only with those who can comprehend the true reality behind the world of everyday experience." (Macintosh) Platos theory of forms suggested that there is a different reality to everything for each person. That would insinuate that for a dog, that bone is big thing worth his time, while as humans, we see the dog with his bone and think "why bother?".
All good principles should have sexy names, so I shall call this one Newton‘s Laser Sword on the grounds that it is much sharper and more dangerous than Occam’s Razor. In its weakest form it says that we should not dispute propositions unless they can be shown by precise logic and/or mathematics to have observable consequences. In its strongest form it demands a list of observable consequences and a formal demonstration that they are indeed consequences of the proposition claimed. Those philosophers who followed Newton became known as ‘scientists’ and eventually Karl Popper came along and codified the practice of these heretics in his famous falsifiability demarcation criterion.
所有好的原则都应该有性感的名字，所以我将其称为牛顿激光剑，因为它比奥卡姆剃刀更锋利、更危险。在其最弱的形式中，它说我们不应该争论命题，除非它们可以被精确的逻辑和/或数学证明具有可观察的结果。在其最强大的形式中，它要求列出可观察到的后果，并正式证明它们确实是所主张命题的后果。那些追随牛顿的哲学家被称为“科学家”，最终卡尔·波普尔出现并将这些异端的做法编入他著名的可证伪性划分标准。
Until the mathematicians Bolyai, Lobachevsky, and Riemann came along. Bolyai tried to deduce a contradiction, assuming that through a point, parallel to a given line, many lines could be drawn. He deduced away like crazy but failed to get a contradiction, and eventually realised that he had invented a new geometry, different from Euclid‘s but just as respectable. Riemann went the other way. He assumed that through a point, parallel to a given line, no line could be drawn. He realised that he too had invented another geometry, in fact the geometry of great circles on a sphere.
直到数学家 Bolyai、Lobachevsky 和 Riemann 的出现。 Bolyai 试图推导出一个矛盾，假设通过一个点，平行于给定的线，可以画出许多线。他疯狂地推导却没有得到矛盾，最终意识到他发明了一种新的几何学，它不同于欧几里德的几何学，但同样值得尊敬。Riemann 走了另一条路。他假设通过一个点，平行于给定的线，不能画出任何线。他意识到他也发明了另一种几何学，实际上是球体上大圆的几何学。
Eventually I concluded that language was bigger than the universe, that it was possible to talk about things in the same sentence which could not both be found in the real world. The real world might conceivably contain some object which had never so far been moved, and it might contain a force that had never successfully been resisted, but the question of whether the object was really immovable could only be known if all possible forces had been tried on it and left it unmoved. So the matter could be resolved by trying out the hitherto irresistible force on the hitherto immovable object to see what happened. Either the object would move or it wouldn‘t, which would tell us only that either the hitherto immovable object was not in fact immovable, or that the hitherto irresistible force was in fact resistible.
最终我得出结论，语言比宇宙更大，可以用同一句话来谈论现实世界中不可能同时存在的事物。现实世界可能包含一些从未被移动过的物体，也可能包含一种从未被成功抵抗过的力，但只有在所有可能的力都已经作用于这个物体上并且它没有移动时，才能确定这个物体是否真的不可移动。因此，这个问题可以通过在迄今不可移动的物体上尝试迄今不可抗拒的力来解决，看看会发生什么。无论物体是移动还是不动，都只会告诉我们迄今为止不可移动的物体实际上并非不可移动，或者迄今为止无法抵抗的力实际上是可以抵抗的。
There is a similar story of spear and shield in China. but I have only passively accepted it, never thinking deeply about it. I was amazed that the author could engage in such thinking even in the later grades of elementary school.
中国有类似的矛与盾的故事，但我只是被动接受，从未想过可以思考地如此深入。作者在小学高年级就能进行这种思考令我感到惊叹。
We must be epistemically vigilant. And we should look after the epistemic wellbeing of others
Article's Claim.
This means that entertaining beliefs that are true and justified isn’t just a noble aim, it’s a goal we ought to actively pursue: an epistemic duty.
This is the core argument for claiming moral duty in avoiding epistemic harm, that is, not fighting wrong beliefs.
If nothing matters long-term, as Syfret puts it, then her attention shifts to the here and now. But why? According to nihilism nothing at all matters, either long or short term. So focusing on now is just as meaningless as focusing on the big picture.
This is probably the strongest and definitive argument, and one of (in my opinion) cardinal flaws of nihilism as a whole. Nihilism makes impossible to argue about anything without entering in the above contradiction.
Like Cuckoos, Capitalism Had to Push All Other Ways of Living Out of the Nest
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His greatest insight, Agnes believes, was that people are intellectually lonely—they live under an illusion of self-sufficiency. Dialogue was the only way out of their natural state.
Socrates
An article about contemporary philosopher Agnes Callard
Profile of Ted Nelson
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An overly complex method of commonplacing, though oddly with absolutely no mention of indexing of any sort.
reply: <br /> If academia doesn't work out, then perhaps you could shill for "Big Notebook"? Seriously though, this is a pretty heavy/complex method of commonplacing. Do you index any/all of it somehow so you can find the pieces you know you've worked through in the past? A card index perhaps? John Locke's commonplacing method? I do something similar, but use slips or index cards the way Wittgenstein or Walter Benjamin did.... Perhaps one day I'll go more visual like https://www.denizcemonduygu.com/philo/browse/ ?
Bruno Latour showed us how to think with the things of the world | Aeon Essays<br /> by Stephen Muecke
one finds in Deutsch’s catalogue one implementation of what LorraineDaston would later term ‘mechanical objectivity’, an ideal of removing the scholar’s selffrom the process of research and especially historical and scientific representation (Das-ton and Galison, 2007: 115-90).
In contrast to the sort of mixing of personal life and professional life suggested by C. Wright Mills' On Intellectual Craftsmanship (1952), a half century earlier Gotthard Deutsch's zettelkasten method showed what Lorraine Datson would term 'mechanical objectivity'. This is an interesting shift in philosophical perspective of note taking practice. It can also be compared and contrasted with a 21st century perspective of "personal" knowledge management.
the manner in which knowledge is acquired, communicated and shared is internal to the nature of knowledge itself, and that the metaphysics of personhood needs to countenance the formation of reason if we are to understand how rationality and animality are united in the human person.
education is not a merely contingent addition to the human life-form. Education is reason’s vehicle.
why exactly education should matter to philosophy. The reason is that education makes us what we are. Human beings do not enter the world with their rational powers ‘up and running’. Those powers are actualised in the child in a process of formation, or education in the broadest sense
As British philosopher Galen Strawson recently put it, to imagine that one can travel from insensate matter to a being capable of discussing the existence of insensate matter in a mere two jumps is simply to make emergence do too much work.
Lobsters have a very bad reputation among philosophers, who frequently hold them out as examples of purely unthinking, unfeeling creatures. Presumably, this is because lobsters are the only animal most philosophers have killed with their own two hands before eating. It’s unpleasant to throw a struggling creature in a pot of boiling water; one needs to be able to tell oneself that the lobster isn’t really feeling it. (The only exception to this pattern appears to be, for some reason, France, where Gérard de Nerval used to walk a pet lobster on a leash and where Jean-Paul Sartre at one point became erotically obsessed with lobsters after taking too much mescaline.)
But in the new full-blown capitalist version of evolution, where the drive for accumulation had no limits, life was no longer an end in itself, but a mere instrument for the propagation of DNA sequences—and so the very existence of play was something of a scandal.
Could refuting the idea of accumulation without limits (and thus capitalism for capitalism's sake) help give humans more focus on what is useful/valuable?
Plato. Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo. Phaedrus. Translated by Harold North Fowler. Loeb Classical Library 36. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1914. https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL036/1914/volume.xml.
Through her writing Easterling often forces architects to re-envision their role in the making of space around the world, extolling the virtues of knowing how versus knowing what. She also encourages them to consider creating “active forms” — time-released protocols that manage spatial levers, exchanges, and switches — in addition to “object forms,” or what we commonly think of as buildings.
[[Active form]] consist of dispositions that materialize as new forms.
The Emperor Justinian closed the Academy inAthens, the centre of Neoplatonist philosophy and pagan resistance.
I came to this page after reading the "About the Author (The Second Right Answer)" page of Roger von Oech's "A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative" which was mentioned by Kevin Bowers in his discussion with John Vervaeke titled "Principles & Methods for Achieving a Flow State | Voices w/ Vervaeke | John Vervaeke & Kevin Bowers".
von Oech stated that
I wrote my doctoral dissertation on the twentieth century German philosopher Ernst Cassirer, the last man to know everything. From him, I learned that it's good to be a generalist, and that looking at the Big Picture helps to keep you flexible.
This was a surprising reference since Bowers stated that the book was written for helping entrepreneurs become more creative; the book seems more widely applicable based on the examples and exercises given in the first 20 pages.
Cassirer appears to bridge between the continental and analytic traditions in philosophy. Cassirer's touching on mathematics, aesthetics, and ethics reminds me of - John Vervaeke's work - ie, the process of relevance realization and his neo platonic, transformational reading of ancient texts - Forrest Landry work - ie, his magnum opus "An Immanent Metaphysics" which he purports to be pointing to a foundation between ontology, epistemology, and ethics. Recently, IDM (Immanent Domain Metaphysics) made more sense to me when I attempted to translat the 3 axioms and 3 modalities into language from category theory
The following seem important and related somehow: 1. the symbolic process 2. the process of abstraction 3. the process of representation
Maybe these are related to the means by which one can can transcend their current self? ie, is it through particular symbolic practices that one can more easily shed one identity and acquire another?
Also, are 1., 2., and 3. different aspects of the same thing/event?
“The invention of the ship,” as Paul Virilio wrote, “was also the invention of the shipwreck.”
Every innovation drags a host of new concepts into existence with it. Ways it can succeed, fail. All clouding around its reputation and providing handles for people to wield it.
You’re walking to work and you see a burning mansion. You’ve been in that mansion and know that there’s a Picasso worth $100 million. (Quick math: 100,000 lives saved.) You’re about to run into the mansion to save the Picasso…But right next to you, there’s a lake. And in that lake, there’s a drowning child.
not all good actions can necessarily be quantified.