July 2010
31 posts
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“Ronald Wright on a short history of progress
“Though we became...”
– Ronald Wright, Canadian writer, historian, archeologist, A Short History of Progress, House of Anansi Press, 2004.
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“ “The important thing is to understand life, each living individuality,...”
– Gilles Deleuze, cited in Wildcat, Polytopia as Rhizomatic Hyperconnectivity - a new form of wisdom emerges
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“The Ship of Theseus Paradox and hyperconnectivity
“Imagine a wooden ship...”
– Wildcat, Polytopia as Rhizomatic Hyperconnectivity - a new form of wisdom emerges, Polytopia, July 2010.
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“ “If only you could see what I have seen with your eyes.” ”
– The off-world replicants in Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner, cited in Wildcat, Polytopia as Rhizomatic Hyperconnectivity - a new form of wisdom emerges
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“Thomas Nagel on the subjective character of experience (René Descartes’...”
– Thomas Nagel, What is it like to be a bat?, from The Philosophical Review LXXXIII, 4 (October 1974): 435-50.
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“William James and Théodule-Armand Ribot on forgetting
“Forgetting – In the...”
– William James, American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician (1842-1910), Text-book of Psychology, Chapter XVIII – “Memory”, London: Macmillan and Co., 1892, p. 300, cited in Entersection
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“ “I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human beart...”
– Nikola Tesla, 1896, Inventor of alternating current, cited in Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near, Penguin Books Ltd, London, England, 2005, p. 1
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“Matt Ridley on innovation
“When Hero of Alexandria invented a steam...”
– Matt Ridley, Ideas Having Sex. How prosperity and innovation exceeded the expectations of John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith, Reason Magazine, July 2010.
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“ “We evolved in a world where our survival depended on an intimate...”
– W. Daniel Hillis, on Edge Reality Club conversation cross-referenced with a discussion on the Encyclopedia Britannica website on Nicholas Carr’s Atlantic Essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, cited in The Hillis knowledge web: An Idea Whose Time Has Come By W. Daniel Hillis | Edge
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“Blair Bolles on the development of human speech
“The most important...”
– Blair Bolles (American humanist and author who argues that human freedom, and originality are real and natural, deriving their powers from modifications of animal memory systems) in interview with T. DeLene Beeland, Why humans speak: It’s a matter of trust, The Charlotte Observer, Jul. 12, 2010 (via...
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“ “We have to remember that what we observe is not nature itself, but...”
– Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory, (1958), published by George Allen and Unwin Edition, 1959
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“ “All our intuition is nothing but the representation of phenomena; that...”
– Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason, translated by J.M.D. Meiklejohn, Wilder Publications, 2008, p.48.
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“Daniel Dennett on consciousness
“There is no single, definitive “stream...”
– Daniel Dennett, American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist, Consciousness Explained, (tnx inwrdbound)
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“ “You can’t convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not...”
– Carl Sagan, Contact, Simon & Schuster, 1985
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“ “For as long as there been humans we have searched for our place in the...”
– Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Random House, New York, 1980, p.193
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“ “Indeed to be free and to be rational, in the Kant-Hegel-Brandom account,...”
– Nicholas Smith, Review: Reason in Philosophy by Robert Brandom, The Philosophers’ Magazine, July 14, 2010 (via jamreilly)
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“John Locke on free will
“For, the mind having in most cases, as is...”
– John Locke, Essay, II, XXI, 48, cited in Daniel Clement Dennett, Elbow room: the varieties of free will worth wanting, VIP Garamond, Achorn Graphic Service, 1997, p. 36
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“ “Hidden within this simple fact - the farther away things are, the...”
– Sean Carrollt, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time (tnx chrbutler)
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“David Chalmers on consciousness
“According to David Chalmers, the...”
– Ker Than, Why Great Minds Can’t Grasp Consciousness, Live Science, 08 August 2005 ☞ See also: David Chalmers - The Extended Mind, TEDxSydney, 2011
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“ “You know, things are going to be really different!… No, no, I mean...”
– Mark Miller (computer scientist) to Eric Drexler, around 1986
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“ “A knowmad is what I term a nomadic knowledge worker – that is, a...”
– John Moravec, Knowmads in Society 3.0 (via wildcat2030)
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“ “Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the...”
– Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, New York: Random House, 1994, p.53-54
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“ “Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that...”
– Robert Anton Wilson, American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, futurist, civil libertarian (1932-2007)
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“Neil Postman on the values of spoken and written expression
“Judges,...”
– Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public discourse in the age of show business, New York: Penguin Books, 2006, p. 19, cited in Entersection
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“ “Two billion years ago, our ancestors were microbes; a half-billion years...”
– Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, New York: Random House, 1994, p. 332.
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“Vernor Vinge on the technological singularity
“What are the consequences...”
– Vernor Vinge, The Technological Singularity, 1993, cited in Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near, Penguin Books Ltd, London, England, 2005, p. 21-22.
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“Thomas Metzinger on dreams
“I like to look at dreams as...”
– Thomas Metzinger, German philosopher, department of philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity, MIT Press, 2004, p.261. See also: ☞ Thomas Metzinger on brain and the nature of consciousness
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“Italo Calvino on traveling (Marco Polo travelling, Miniature from the Book...”
– Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (translated by William Weaver)
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“Gilles Deleuze on philosophy, art and science
“If we can create...”
– Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (1925-1995) (tnx montycantsin)
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“Stanley Kubrick on Life Playboy: If life is so purposeless, do you feel its...”
– Stanley Kubrick in interview for Playboy, Stanley Kubrick Interviews, University Press of Mississippi, 2001, p.73
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“ “I think it very likely – in fact inevitable – that biological...”
– Casey Kazan, Space Exploration in the Age of Homo Sapiens 2.0, The Daily Galaxy, June 30, 2010 (via wildcat2030)
June 2010
25 posts
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“ “[Jorge Luis Borges] talked of a country that prided itself on its...”
– Michael A. Arbib, 1985 cited in William H. Calvin, The cerebral code: thinking a thought in the mosaics of the mind, MIT Press, 2000, p.51 