June 2009
39 posts
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“Emmanuel Levinas on the relations with Other
“One begins with the idea...”
– Emmanuel Levinas, The Other in Proust (translated by Sean Hand) (tnx fuckyeahphilosophy)
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“ “For Husserl consciousness is absolutely self-positing (so much so that...”
– Jean-Philippe Pastor, Self positing consciousness, MetaBlog, Oct 7, 2007. (tnx wildcat2030)
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“Jonathan Ree on Philosophy as an Art
“One of the things that’s happened...”
– Jonathan Rée, Philosophy Bites, Sep 23, 2007 (tnx fuckyeahphilosophy)
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“Joseph Carroll on Storytelling
“What makes humans unique, perhaps more...”
– Joseph Carroll, The Adaptive Function of Literature and the Other Arts (via wildcat2030)
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““I’d just like to see
thinking come back
in style —
I haven’t heard a...”
– Timothy Leary, American psychologist and writer, known in later life for advocating advanced research into the therapeutic benefits of psychedelic drugs (1920-1996)
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“ “In the future… a new generation of artists will be writing genomes...”
– Freeman Dyson, British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum field theory, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering.
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“ “To rid ourselves from ignorance we need of necessity understand our...”
– Wildcat, Pin-Yin Shi Shi Zao Ying Xiong! (part 3)
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“ “Phenomenology is the study of essences; and according to it, all...”
– Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
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“ “At the moment when human beings cut themselves off from the...”
– Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (translated by Edmund Jephcott) (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
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“ “Consider the reality of our experience. We live in the imagination. For...”
– Joseph Carroll, The Adaptive Function of Literature and the Other Arts (via wildcat2030)
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“Erich Fromm on what distinguishes man from animals
“What is it that...”
– Erich Fromm, social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher (1900-1980), “Affluence and Ennui in Our Society” in For the Love of Life (1986)
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“ “We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve...”
– Richard Dawkins, British ethologist and evolutionary biologist
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“ “The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile...”
– Stanley Kubrick, Jewish American film director, writer, producer, and photographer (1928-1999)
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“Lawrence Krauss: “You are all stardust”
“Every atom in your...”
– Lawrence Krauss, American Theoretical Physicist who is Professor of Physics, Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration and Director of the Origins Project at the Arizona State University, A Universe From Nothing, AAI 2009. See also: ☞ Lawrence Krauss on probability in the...
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“Emmanuel Levinas on encounter with other
“The light that permits...”
– Emmanuel Levinas, Time and the Other (translated by Richard A. Cohen) (tnx fuckyeahphilosophy)
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“ “Eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind.” ”
– Mahatma Gandhi, the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement (1869-1948). See also: Eye for an eye
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“ “As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will...”
– Denis Diderot (French philosopher, art critic, and writer (1713-1784), Encyclopédie (1755) cited in Information overload
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“ “We’ve had information overload in some form or another since the 1500’s....”
– Clay Shirky, “It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure”, Web 2.0 Expo NY cited in John D. Cook’s Strategy for dealing with information overload), Feb 24, 2009.
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“ “Silence is not just the absence of a significant piece of behaviour. It...”
– ABC Radio National, Stories of Silence
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“ “The other metaphorical analogue to Gödel’s Theorem which I find...”
– Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Miskatonic University Press
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“ “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go...”
– Philip K. Dick, American novelist, short story writer and essayist (1928-1982)
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“Janet H. Murray on “the active creation of belief”
“The pleasurable...”
– Janet H. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, The Free Press, 1997, p. 110. cited in Entersection.
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“ “Time is nature’s way of preventing everything happening at...”
– John Archibald Wheeler, American theoretical physicist who was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II (1911-2008)
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“It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren...”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses, 1833
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“Nova Spivack on collective intelligence
“The self is an illusion. And...”
– Nova Spivack, How To Build The Global Mind, Twine, 2008.
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“ “Information is the currency of democracy.” ”
– Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. (1743-1826)
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“ “There is no evidence that the world is becoming more virtual. The...”
– Geert Lovink, The colonization of real-time and other trends in Web 2.0, Eurozine - MyBrain.net, March 18, 2010 (tnx wildcat2030)
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“ “Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to...”
– Ken Wilber, Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (1995)
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“ “We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on...”
– Vernor Vinge, Hugo Award-winning author of A Fire Upon the Deep and Rainbows End, as well as the 1993 essay “The Coming Technological Singularity”, in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate. (tnx frontlineassembly)
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“ “Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something,...”
– Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein, PhD in Physics and more than 20 years of experience in microsystems technology and biomedical devices.
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“ “My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be...”
– Adlai E. Stevenson, Congressman from Illinois. He was Assistant Postmaster General of the United States during Grover Cleveland’s first administration (1885-1889) and 23rd Vice President of the United States (1835-1914)
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“ “It’s easier to start wars than to end them. It’s easier to...”
– Barack Obama, Speech at Cairo University, Egypt, June 4, 2009
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“ “Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up...”
– Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616) 