Caitlin Johnstone Collective human behaviour is complex and we are still not evolved enough to learn the basic strategies of coexistence. The clashes are mostly cultural. The ideal paradigm 'unity in diversity' does not provide optimal solution.

Is a world decomposed into disjoint cultural communities a solution?
I am just asking.
#humanity

Humans are inherently communal beings. Common identities such as religion, caste, color, and language serve as foundational elements within communities. These identities foster the development of distinct cultures within each community.
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maybe aside from my book, Physicalism Deconstructed, I'm not sure I've written anything of real value in my lifetime. so it goes.

#philosophy #academia

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The discipline of philosophy is losing out on those philosophical perspectives that are afforded by competence in languages other than English. - F. Contesi, Louise Chapman and Constantine Sandis offer some solutions to the contemporary malaise of philosophy. iai.tv/articles/analy…

Here are the many reasons language models will hit a wall very soon

- These models are bound by the limits of human language. The most they can learn are the patterns in the language, not more

- human reasoning has its limits as well. No one knows what “superhuman reasoning”

Pragmatism is the principle that every theoretical judgment expressible in a sentence in the indicative mood is a confused form of thought whose only meaning, if it has any, lies in its tendency to enforce a corresponding practical maxim expressible as a conditional sentence
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May be of interest to some

Deleuze and Biosemiotics: Biological Emergence, Agency, and Subjectivity in Logic of Sense and A Thousand Plateaus - Biosemiotics link.springer.com/article/10.100… via @Instapaper

Having a lot fun with this book describing some of the great #experiences of science, eg. test of general relativity, measuring the Earth's size, DNA, cloning, observing microbes, speed of light, neutrinos,... When at school, I wish I was taught #physics this way!

Conversation with Vittorio Gallese about empathy and aesthetic experience.
Perla Gianni Falvo
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Into the awareness of the thunder itself the awareness of the previous silence creeps and continues; for what we hear when the thunder crashes is not thunder pure, but thunder-breaking-upon-silence-and-contrasting-with-it. /../ The feeling of the thunder is also a feeling of the

Some people are indifferent to most religions but detest the sect they escaped from. This is how I feel about metaethics.

The matrix, myths, and metaphysics

Should we recognise all metaphysical accounts as speculative nonsense? Since there can be no empirical evidence for any of them, is contemporary science the only way to determine the nature of things? iai.tv/video/the-matr… #metaphysics

'We all need someone to look at us. we can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under. the first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public. the second category is made

Philosophical reflection often begins with a disruptive mood | by Steven Segal

For many of our greatest philosophers, it was their moods, from wonder to estrangement to anxiety, that first inspired them. #philosophy psyche.co/ideas/philosop…

Elon Musk 'Depending on their actions' Right??
But you seem to contradict yourself.
'Oct 7' and 'the reaction on civilians' both are equally condemnable.
Have you condemned both equally? Have you followed your own premises and principles you are preaching?
Is that honesty?

Never choose “dare” when playing Truth Or Dare with your daughter.
I have to do a meeting like this now.

1/ “If not in the womb, at what point in #life do we first have the sensation of being us? In terms of knowing that we’re an individual person...

UC San Diego School of Medicine CARL Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego UCSD Neurosciences Natalie Geld David Edelman Jeff Krichmar La Jolla Light Athenaeum Music & Arts Library

Contradiction comes from false demarcation, not from incorrectness.

The incompleteness of Godel and Turing come from viewing nature through too restricted a lens.

Further, spotting the contradiction is a signpost to deeper truth, for truth will always plays both sides.

Formal