Do we make our own luck or does luck and the blind power of statistical necessity make us?
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Category: Philosophy
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Hollow Wisdom and Love
Do we fall in love with a person or do we fall in love with the idea of a person? We can never ever really get inside someone else’s head, experience the world as they do and through their eyes, so we are surely only ever as much in love with who we think that […]
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Human-like Thought in AI?
AI systems approximating human thought? It seems to me that we are quite a long way from comprehensively understanding what human thought actually is, let alone successfully simulating it.
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No Ultimate Truth
The one ultimate truth is that there is no ultimate truth.
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Darkness and Light
There is darkness and there is light in every life.
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Own your own emptiness
We are all empty, don’t let the shambling leviathan of commercial culture make you feel less than you are, feel worthless or unvalued and unloved.
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Death
Death. Life. Mortality. Absence. Emptiness.
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Blind Chance
Good fortune or success may be more often a matter of statistical probability than of human intention or intervention.
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Between Life and Death
Life is commonly considered as antithetical to death but in some ways, there may be a common ground and source between them.
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Conceptual Homeostasis
Does the social (and psychological) context of science and technology fundamentally inhibit the free exploration and development of new modes of thought ?
The non-linear cognitive flexibility and diverse conceptual vocabulary required to describe the complex problem-space of environmental and ecological complexity is also the heuristic practise with which we might seek to successfully address it.
Is it possible to genuinely acknowledge or effectively disentangle the diverse patterns and consequences of environmental disruption without also simultaneously addressing the core epistemological shortcomings of human cognition, of human nature ?
