October 2010
33 posts
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“Alan Watts on time
“Time is a measure of energy, a measure of motion....”
– Alan Watts, British philosopher, writer, and speaker (1915-1973) (via parkstepp)
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“Neil Gaiman on imagination
“I think most people’s imaginations don’t...”
– Neil Gaiman, in an interview with Cosmopolitan Philippines (via vivatregina)
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“ “Illusion is the first of all pleasures.” ”
– Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade (1694-1778)
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“ “A work of rhetoric is pragmatic; it comes into existence for the sake of...”
– Lloyd Bitzer, Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science, The Rhetorical Situation (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
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“ “Every real thing, and ultimately the whole world as it exists for us in...”
– Edmund Husserl, philosopher and mathematician who is deemed the founder of phenomenology (1859-1938), Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology (tnx fuckyeahphilosophy)
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“ “There is nothing so glorious nor more wide-spread than the unity of...”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum (On the Ends of Good and Evil) (tnx fuckyeahphilosophy)
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“ “What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and...”
– Terence McKenna cited in Jason Silva, Some thoughts on Art + Inspiration, Love, Apotheosis and Engineering Divinity, Aug 28, 2010
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“Wildcat and Jason Silva on immortality Raphael, Mercury Offering The Cup of...”
– Wildcat, Fresh from the Pulp The Aesthetic singularity or Turning into Gods a documentary by Jason Silva, Polytopia, Oct 16, 2010, See also: Spaceweaver, Becoming Immortal, Polytopia
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“Rudolf Nureyev on creativity
“It is something born from within you. It’s a...”
– Rudolf Nureyev (LeMay 1990) cited in Peter Bentley, David Corne, Creative evolutionary systems, Morgan Kaufmann, 2002, p. 148.
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“Richard Dawkins on expanding our concept of the individual
“To return to...”
– Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype (via inwrdbound)
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“Wildcat on the language singularity and hyperconnectivity
“If you...”
– Wildcat, Parsing Hyper Humanism a different angle to Posthumanism, Polytopia, Oct 2010.
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“ “The individual is neither a quality nor an extension. The individual is...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, New York: Columbia, 1994. pp. 246-47, cited in Wildcat, Parsing Hyper Humanism a different angle to Posthumanism, Polytopia, Oct 2010.
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“Greg Downey on language, thought and time Picture source, Baldassare Peruzzi ...”
– Greg Downey, Life without language, Neuroanthropology, July 21, 2010, See also: Recursion and Human Thought: Why the Pirahã don’t have numbers. A Talk With Daniel L. Everett on Edge: The Third Culture
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“ “What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.” ”
– Carl G. Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of Analytical Psychology (1875-1961)
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“Maryanne Wolf on memory and experience
“There is a difference, between...”
– Maryanne Wolf, cited in James Collins, The Plot Escapes Me, NYT, Sep 17, 2010
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“ “Disconnection is the new counterculture.” ”
– Nicholas Carr, Exodus, Apr 8, 2010
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“ “When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima...”
– Carl G. Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of Analytical Psychology (1875-1961)
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“Douglas Hofstadter on self-knowledge
“All the limitative theorems of...”
– Douglas Hofstadter, 1979, cited in Vinod K. Wadhawan, Complexity Explained: 17. Epilogue, Nirmukta, 04 April 2010 (tnx wildcat2030)
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“Alberto Manguel on his 30,000-Volume library
“Since my library, unlike a...”
– Alberto Manguel, A 30,000-Volume Window on the World, NYT, May 15, 2008
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“ “Hundreds of years from now, we’ll look back and think of this time as...”
– Gary King, Director, Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (via chrbutler)
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“Spencer Wells on the unforeseen cost of civilization
“We have now evolved...”
– Spencer Wells (geneticist and anthropologist, an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. He leads The Genographic Project), Pandora’s Seed, The Unforeseen cost of civilization, SEED, Jun 7, 2010 (via chrbutler)
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“ “Life is not going to be easy in the 21st century for people who insist...”
– Joel Garreau, American journalist, scholar and author, Conspiracy of Heretics (continued), Wired 2.11, Nov 1994, p. 158 (via chrbutler)
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“Marcus Chown: we live in a random reality
“Look around you—at a rose, a...”
– Marcus Chown, Random Reality § SEEDMagazine. See also: The Matchbox that Ate a 40-Ton Truck: What Everyday Things Tell Us About the Universe. (tnx wildcat2030)
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“ “We know that the immune system, like the central nervous system, has...”
– Candace B. Pert, Research Professor in Physiology and Biophysics (Original Art Studio) (tnx crashinglybeautiful)
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“ “In an extreme view, the world can be seen as only connections, nothing...”
– Tim Bernes Lee, Weaving the Web (via johntropea)
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“ “I think it very likely – in fact inevitable – that biological intelligence is...”
– Paul Davies cited in Space Exploration in the Age of Homo Sapiens 2.0, The Daily Galaxy, Jun 30, 2010 (via wildcat2030)
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“Stanislaw Lem on genetic code as the language in which organisms speak to each...”
– Stanislaw Lem, in “His Master’s Voice” by Daniel Rourke (tnx 3quarksdaily)
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“ “I do believe that consciousness is an emergent phenomenon. It’s like a shift...”
– Henry Markram, cited in Max Miller, Can Computers Be Conscious?, Big Think, Sep 30, 2010 (tnx wildcat2030)
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Theoretical Physicists Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein
“Everything we...”
– Niels Bohr, Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics (1885-1962)
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“Egon Schiele: I must see new things and investigate them
“I must see new...”
– Egon Schiele, Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century (1890-1918)
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“Richard Feynman: “Step one - write down the problem. Step two - think...”
– Atemporality for the Creative Artist, Wired, Feb 25, 2010 (tnx wildcat2030)
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“ “There are scholars for whom the history of philosophy (ancient as well...”
– Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will be Able to Come Forward as Science, Cambridge University Press, 2004, p.5. (via fuckyeahphilosophy) 