Michele Pasin / Quotes

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After of the ending of absolute values, a life of tranquillity is the only solution (granted a man has the right temperament for it)

For Tranquility.—But will not our philosophy become thus a tragedy? Will not truth prove the enemy of life, of betterment? A question seems to weigh upon our…

Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits #truth #life #nature #knowledge #human-life

Becoming one with the midges

By now it must have been more than two hours into the trip, and I was slumped against the beech looking upward into the tree canopy, idly watching the midges…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #nature #animals #sympathy

Becoming the daffodil

I was horrified to see tiny bugs crawling up the flower’s stem. I looked more closely. They were not bugs, but very small droplets of moisture moving by…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #perception #nature #emotions

Causation as one damn thing after another

This felt determination of the mind gives us the conviction that there are necessary connections in nature. But that conviction is nothing but an illusion…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #cause #illusion #nature

Computations are not like gravity

“Historically, significant scientific progress has commonly been achieved in the absence of formal definitions. For instance, the phenomenological laws of…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #computation #information #consciousness #nature #ontology

Criticism: weakness of isa relation on the idea category; isa is not used in a context-independent manner

The most serious form of this last worry centers on the semantics of the isa relation. The isa class subsumption relation is often presumed to hold in a…

From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy #relation #philosophical-discussion #context #discussion #nature