May 2010
45 posts
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“William Deresiewicz on solitude Salvador Dalí, Woman at the Window (Muchacha en...”
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“ “For the first time ever, history will be played out under a single form...”
– Paul Virilio cited by Ronald E. Purser in Cyberspace and Its Limits: Hypermodern Detours in the Evolution of Consciousness, San Francisco State University, 1999
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“Ronald E. Purser on hyper-perspectivism and digital culture
Perhaps most...”
– Ronald E. Purser, Cyberspace and Its Limits: Hypermodern Detours in the Evolution of Consciousness, San Francisco State University, 1999.
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“ “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French writer and aviator (1900-1944), a very loose English paraphrase of his French poem Dessine-moi un bateau, or Make Me a Boat, found in Citadelle, 1948.
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“Marcel Detienne and Jean-Pierre Vernant on Metis
“Metis is particularly...”
– Marcel Detienne, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society, Trans. Janet Lloyd. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991, 1-54, cited in Integral Ideology, An ideological genealogy of Integral Theory and Practice
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“Mark Turner on Packing the Known Universe to Human Scale
“It is a...”
– Mark Turner (Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University, linguist, and author), The Scope of Human Thought, 2009 | Case Western Reserve University
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“Isaiah Berlin on Fichte:
“The highest drive in human beings is … the drive...”
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“Frederick Henry Hedge on the characteristics of genius
“Next to...”
– Frederick Henry Hedge in his essay “Genius” available in Atheism in Philosophy: and other essays, Boston, Massachusetts: Roberts Brothers, 1884, p. 364. via Frederick Henry Hedge on the regulation of imagination by reflection by Entersection. Originally published (1877)
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“ “The illiterate of the future are not those who can’t read or write, but...”
– Alvin Toffler via The Secret to Learning is Unlearning
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“ “Our sole responsibility is to produce something smarter than we are; any...”
– Elizer S. Yudkowsky, Staring Into The Singularity, 1996, cited in Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near, Penguin Books Ltd, London, England, 2005, p. 35
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“Jeff Hawkins on intelligent machines
“Exponential growth requires the...”
– Jeff Hawkins in Tech Luminaries Address Singularity | IEEE Spectrum (via chrbutler)
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“J. Richard Gott on travel in time
“I’d go forward about 200,000 years to...”
– tnx chrbutler
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“World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopedia
“Innovators, who may...”
– H.G. Wells, World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia (Contribution to the new Encyclopédie Française, August, 1937)
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“Lee Siegel on Internet
“As the Viennese philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein...”
– Lee Siegel, Against the Machine
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“ “In a simultaneous development, we are now routinely transporting our...”
– Rene Daalder, The Age of Optimization (part 1)
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“ “Man is no longer the measure of all things. The dimensions of human...”
– Malcolm McCullough, “Digital Ground” cited in The Age of Optimization (part 1)
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“David Dalrymple on Internet and ability to focus
“Before the Internet,...”
– David Dalrymple (MIT), “How is the Internet changing the way you think?”, Edge 310, January 10, 2009
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“ “I’ve found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing...”
– Walter Murch, Michael Ondaatje, The Conversations, p.8-10. cited in What you loved when you were nine or ten
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“Thomas Del Prete on Thomas Merton’s epistemology
“What (Thomas) Merton...”
– Thomas Del Prete in his speech “The Contemplative as Teacher: Learning from Thomas Merton” presented at the first general meeting of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Southampton, England: May 1996). Cited in Entersection
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“ “It is impossible to establish the internal logical consistency of a very...”
– Kurt Gödel, Austrian logician, mathematician and philosopher (1906-1978) (Source: x0)
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“Bennett Foddy on Synthetic biology: eroding the moral distinctions between...”
– Bennett Foddy, Synthetic biology: eroding the moral distinctions between animate and inanimate, Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, May 20, 2010 (via wildcat2030), See also: Craig Venter unveils “synthetic life”, TED.com
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“Alfred North Whitehead on the necessity for wandering
“Modern science has...”
– Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher (1861-1947), ”Science and the Modern World”, 1925. (qtd. in “Humanity Identity Crises” (tnx my serendipities)
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“ “This is an inevitable consequence of consciousness. A being with a mind,...”
– In the Matrix, which pill would you take, the red or the blue? | arrod.co.uk
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“Richard P. Feynman on the scientific view of the World
“He learns about...”
– Richard P. Feynman in his essay “The Uncertainty of Values” (1963). Available in The Meaning of It All (pdf) p.16-17, Reading, Massachusetts: Perseus Books, 1998, p. 38-9. via Richard P. Feynman on wonder in the universe
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“Richard P. Feynman on the meaning of life
“Throughout all the ages, men have...”
– Richard P. Feynman in his essay “The Uncertainty of Values” (1963). Available in The Meaning of It All (pdf) p.15.
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“Richard P. Feynman on the universe
“This universe has been described by...”
– Richard P. Feynman in his essay “The Uncertainty of Science” (1963). Available in The Meaning of It All (pdf) p.6.
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“Richard P. Feynman on the internal machinery of life
“Life itself. The...”
– Richard P. Feynman in his essay “The Uncertainty of Science”, (1963). Available in The Meaning of It All (pdf) p.6-7
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“Richard Feynman on doubt and uncertainty
“If you expected science to give all...”
– Richard P. Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, (transcript source) ☞ See also: Richard Feynman - No Ordinary Genius, BBC Horizon documentary (1993)
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“Richard P. Feynman on the value of doubt in science
“The rate of the...”
– Richard P. Feynman in his essay “The Uncertainty of Science”, (1963). Available in The Meaning of It All (pdf) p.13-14. ☞ See also: Richard Feynman - No Ordinary Genius, BBC Horizon documentary (1993)
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“ “If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for...”
– Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist who discovered the theory of general relativity, Nobel Prize laureate (1879-1955)
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“Henri Poincaré on certainty and doubt in science
“To the superficial...”
– Henri Poincaré in his Author’s Preface to Science and Hypothesis, translated from the French by William John Greenstreet, London; New York: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., 1905, p. xxi, cited in Entersection
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“Henry Oldenburg on facilitating the sharing of knowledge
“Whereas there...”
– Henry Oldenburg, first Secretary of the Royal Society, in The Introduction (PDF) to issue No 1 of the Philosophical Transactions: giving some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenious in many Considerable Parts of the World, on March 6, 1665. Cited in Daniel J....
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“T. E. Lawrence on dreaming “with open eyes”
“Here are no lessons for the...”
– Thomas Edward Lawrence, “Lawrence of Arabia” in the Introductory Chapter to Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Wordsworth Editions Ltd., 1997, p. 6. Cited in Entersection
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“Piet Hein on Art and Science
“Of course I see the necessity for...”
– Piet Hein, Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet (1905-1996), “A Poet With a Slide Rule: Piet Hein Bestrides Art and Science” by Jim Hicks in the Close-Up section of Life, Vol 61, No 16, Oct 14, 1966, p. 64. Cited by Angus Stocking in “An Appreciation of Piet...
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“ “In the future, the importance of geography will be matched by the...”
– Alan Smith - Nationhood: The future of Nationalism
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“Paul Klee on possible worlds
“First, he does not attach such intense...”
– Paul Klee, in his lecture Über moderne Kunst (“On Modern Art”), delivered at his exhibition at the Jenaer Kunstverein on January 26, 1924. Available in Robert L. Herbert’s Modern Artists on Art, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2000, p. 112. Essay begins on p. 103. Source: Entersection
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“Wide horizon, eager life,
Busy years of honest strife,
Ever seeking, ever...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on inspiration cited by Kate Vaughan Jennings in Rahel Varnhagen: her life and letters, London: H. S. King, 1876, p. 1.
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“Katherine Anne Porter on life and the work of the artist
“There seems to...”
– from a 1963 interview of Katherine Anne Porter by Barbara Thompson Davis for The Paris Review, The Art of Fiction, No. 29 (via mhsteger)
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“What would happen if the printed book had just been invented in a high-tech...”
– Juan Villoro, Mexican writer and journalist cited in Metro Nature, originally from adn CULTURA (an Argentinian culture magazine) about the “future of books.” (kindly pointed about by reader David Christensen, and translated via SignandSight.com). See also: ☞ Nicholas Carr on Books That Are Never...
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“ “We hold fast to a social identity that we believe lends us a name and a face,...”
– Doug Thompson, My Avatar is Not Me (tnx myserendipities)
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“ “So we have a new organization of content and expression, each with its own...”
– Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, “The Geology of Morals”, A Thousand Plateaus, 2007, p. 63. (tnx erinhoffman)
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“ “We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we...”
– R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (1927-1989), The Politics of Experience, Harmondsworth, 1967 