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Nature has the highest impact factor of any journal publishing basic scientific research
Editor, Philip Campbell. A weekly, international journal, publishing papers from any area of science with great potential impact and whose importance extends well beyond the confines of the specific discipline concerned. Nature has the highest impact factor of any journal…
Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Un kibbutz moderno e le bio-regioni
Un kibbutz moderno, originato dall’opportunità economica ed esistenziale e dalla convivenza delle differenze, dunque nulla di ideologico o di religioso, nulla di programmatico, al riparo dunque dal mutamento delle convinzioni nel tempo perché tutto giocato sulla concretezza…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
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 electrical current flow were formulated by Ohm, Ampere, and Volta well before the discovery of the electron in 1892 by…
Hofmann on the West's spiritual crisis
Hofmann strongly believed that there was a spiritual crisis in Western civilization, and argued that society must shift from “the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which…
Calvinism (wikipedia Contributors)
Doctrine of predestination
Reformed theologians teach that sin so affects human nature that they are unable even to exercise faith in Christ by their own will. While people are said to retain free will in that they willfully sin, they are unable to not sin because of the corruption of their nature due to…
Total depravity of people
In Christian theology, people are created good and in the image of God but have become corrupted by sin, which causes them to be imperfect and self-interested.[58] Reformed Christians, following the tradition of Augustine of Hippo, believe that this corruption of human nature…
From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy
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 context-general way and capture “purely ontological” relations; if it is true that “A isa B”, then any A in any context…
Too much metacontent to manage by hand
The innovative nature of the work, however, brings with it a host of new difficulties not faced by traditional encyclopedias. It is increasingly impractical, for instance, to have editorial staff manually manage cross-references, tables of contents, search keywords, and other…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Nature is fundamentally illogical
The illogical is so imbedded in the passions, in language, in art, in religion and, above all, in everything that imparts value to life that it cannot be taken away without irreparably injuring those beautiful things. Only men of the utmost simplicity can believe that the…
The history of the moral feelings (man is to be made responsible for nothing)
The Fable of Discretionary Freedom.—The history of the feelings, on the basis of which we make everyone responsible, hence, the so-called moral feelings, is traceable in the following leading phases. At first single actions are termed good or bad without any reference to their…
Error has made men so deep, sensitive and imaginative in order to bring forth such flowers as religions and arts.
It is believed that the more profoundly man thinks, the more exquisitely he feels, the higher the standard he sets for himself, the greater his distance from the other animals—the more he appears as a genius (Genie) among animals—the nearer he gets to the true nature of the…
Kant's philosophy was true: the intellect dictates its laws to nature
When Kant says "the intellect does not derive its laws from nature, but dictates them to her" he states the full truth as regards the idea of nature which we form (nature = world, as notion, that is, as error) but which is merely the synthesis of a host of errors of the…
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 tongue and yet will not put itself into words: whether one can knowingly remain in the domain of the untruthful? or, if…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
La separazione come illusione ottica della coscienza
L’essere umano è una parte del tutto chiamato universo, una parte limitata nello spazio e nel tempo. Fa esperienza di se stesso, dei suoi pensieri e sentimenti come di qualcosa di separato dal resto. Un tipo di illusione ottica della coscienza, questa illusione è una specie di…
Il filo d'erba e la foglia d'autunno
Disse un filo d'erba a un foglia d'autunno: < Fai un tale rumore ,cadendo! disperdi tutti i miei sogni invernali!> Disse indignata la foglia : Poi la foglia d'autunno giacque sulla terra e si addormentò . E quando venne primavera si svegliò- ed era un filo d'erba. E…
Stai come un albero, muoviti come il vento
Stai in piedi come un albero, siedi come una roccia, muoviti come il vento. * (Proverbio Cinese)
Il fiume vince sulla roccia
Se poniamo a confronto il fiume e la roccia, il fiume vince sempre non grazie alla sua forza ma alla sua perseveranza. (Buddha Gautama)
Un granello di polvere contiene l'universo
Un granello di polvere contiene tutto l'universo. Quando un fiore si apre, il ◊◊◊◊◊◊ mondo appare. (Proverbio Zen)
Il destino come eco del carattere
Ovunque l'uomo accusa la natura e il destino, ma il suo destino è in gran parte l'eco del suo carattere e le passioni, i suoi errori e le debolezze. (Democrito)
Adattarsi come l'acqua al vaso
Un uomo saggio si adatta alle circostanze come l'acqua si modella al ◊◊◊◊◊◊ vaso che la contiene. (Proverbio cinese)
Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)
Una notte di zanzare e di caldo
La stanza è piena di zanzare straordinariamente cattive e persistenti: lui ha la schiena e le gambe e le braccia e le mani e perfino lo spazio tra le dita che gli pizzicano in modo insopportabile. Si gira tra le lenzuola pesanti di sudore, scivola fuori dal letto, attraversa la…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
Mono: cosa e creatura insieme
La parola mono, «cosa», significa anche creatura. Nel pensiero nipponico non si profila una netta linea di demarcazione tra gli oggetti e le creature viventi. Il cosmo è una struttura compatta, unitaria e ben organizzata, dove ogni elemento partecipa dell’insieme. È una…
La morte giunge al momento giusto
L’onnipresenza dei kami vi si trova ribadita. Ogni elemento della realtà può conseguire un carattere divino o spirituale. Lo stesso spirito regnerà nell’haiku: niente soggetti privilegiati, ma solo la devozione del poeta all’ispirazione. L’uomo, certo, ma anche l’insetto, la…
L'enigma è il quotidiano
I versi dell’haiku non sono scelti a caso, ma esprimono la difficile coesistenza degli opposti. Del resto, parliamo di difficoltà solo perché siamo troppo attaccati alle polarità né sappiamo rinunciarvi. In realtà l’haiku non cela nulla, anzi dischiude il senso della vita. Ci…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
Nature is radically contingent
nature is radically contingent. Many of the most important explanatory principles in science are by no means intuitive or obvious. Think of the Schroedinger equation or Planck’s constant or for that matter, Einstein’s famous e=mc2. In each case, this is just how nature turned…
Induction cannot ground the uniformity of nature
Unless we presuppose some sort of uniformity of nature, the uniformity of nature guaranteed by causality and causation, we have no ground for inductive arguments. But, and this is the crucial point, there is no ground for the belief in the uniformity of nature, because any such…
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. The only reality is the reality of priority, contiguity, and constant conjunction. Causation on Hume’s account is…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Letting go into beauty
I had ever felt truly meditative on a trip. The acid hadn’t been played out at all. The same sense of boundaries dissolving, which had allowed me to become one with people on the street, was granting this gentler, sweeter sense of empathy with wind and water and trees. I felt I…
Tripping quietly in the woods
into natural beauty. That was my way. I should start tripping on the Heath, I thought, as I finally rose to my feet. I should find a quiet corner of the woods and see what happens if I just sit quietly and don’t try to control things at all.
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 capillary action up the inside of the stem. I realized with shock that I could only be seeing this because I had X-ray…
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 darting to and fro in the shafts of sunlight. How much energy they put into something so futile! There’s no real…
Judges Walk at sunset
Reputedly, these are all that remain of a once-fashionable eighteenth-century mall marking the northern boundary of the village. Beneath the trees, to your right, the ground drops steeply to a small oval meadow. The secret about Judges Walk is that it’s probably the best spot…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The hostile attitude of conquering nature
The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events—that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of our own bodies—and will end in destroying the very environment from which we emerge and upon which our whole life…
One's human nature
If, then, I am not saying that you ought to awaken from the ego-illusion and help save the world from disaster, why The Book? Why not sit back and let things take their course? Simply that it is part of “things taking their course” that I write. As a human being it is just my…
Needham: why China never saw nature as mechanism
It is doubtful whether Western science and technology would have been possible unless we had tried to understand nature in terms of mechanical models. According to Joseph Needham, the Chinese—despite all their sophisitication—made little progress in science because it never…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
The nature of anything is its potential
‘The point is,’ she writes, ‘that no single environment can show the nature of anything, because to know the nature of anything (a woman, a lump of iron, x-rays, mosquitos or black holes) is to know its potential; that if it is in one environment it will appear or behave in one…
The Postmodern Condition: A Report On Knowledge
Databases are tomorrow's encyclopaedia
Databases are tomorrow’s encyclopaedia. They exceed the capacities of any user. They represent “nature” for the postmodern humanity.