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#perspective
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Nietzsche's perspectivism
Few associate Nietzsche with philosophy of mind per se, but his perspectivism is very similar to Kant’s idealism in that both hold that we cannot have knowledge of the objective world. Perspectivism even rejects the possibility of objective metaphysics outright. Like the…
Must machines acquire subjectivity?
believe that the objective mind-independent world does exist. First-person conscious experience is intrinsically subjective, relative and uncertain. How can the field of artificial intelligence use the objective, third-person, logical methods of computer science to create a…
Can LSD glimpse the view from nowhere?
There is no doubt that we each have private, uniquely subjective experiences that exist only in our heads. Furthermore, we can only perceive the world from our first-person perspectives, as separate from the world. This may follow from the fact that consciousness and its…
Durante (Andrea De Carlo)
Guarda la terra dalla luna
“Non sono imbarazzato” ha detto Umberto, si è toccato il colletto della camicia. “Lo sei” ha detto Durante. “Ti secca aver fatto una brutta figura, ma la tua brutta figura è irrilevante.” “Rispetto a cosa?” ha detto Umberto, incerto su come reagire. “Rispetto alla giornata di…
Ogni vita è una cosa piccola
Durante ha detto “Qualunque sia la tua vita, devi tenere conto che è una cosa piccola”. “Lo so” ho detto, ancora completamente incerto sulle nostre rispettive posizioni. “Ti sembra sconfinata perché ci sei dentro” ha detto lui. “Al punto che la maggior parte del tempo non…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
You had to become master over yourself, master of your own good qualities. Formerly they were your masters: but they should be merely your tools along with other tools.
If once he hardly dared to ask "why so apart? so alone? renouncing all I loved? renouncing respect itself? why this coldness, this suspicion, this hate for one's very virtues?"—now he dares, and asks it loudly, already hearing the answer, "you had to become master over…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
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…
Steven Pinker On His Sense Of Style : Nature News & Comment
Writing style
The main difference between good writing and turgid mush — academese, corporatese, and so on — is that good writing is a window onto the world. The writer narrates an ongoing series of events which the reader can see for himself, if only he is given an unobstructed view. In…
Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective
Marketing VS Engineering perspective
As we have seen, the different kinds of software artifacts we have discussed are based on a requirements engineering perspective. We can’t ignore however another perspective that deeply affects the current practice of software engineering, namely the market- ing perspective.