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Good Without God – A Letter To The Faithful
Religion does not bring meaning
Life is insignificant – in the span of the universe. I never thought I’d say this, but I’m starting to come to the conclusion that the convictions held by Creationists, as barking mad and as scientifically untenable as they are, make more sense than those held by the majority…
Information - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Information does not require a conscious mind to perceive, much less appreciate, the pattern
Information is any type of pattern that influences the formation or transformation of other patterns. In this sense, there is no need for a conscious mind to perceive, much less appreciate, the pattern. Consider, for example, DNA. The sequence of nucleotides is a pattern that…
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
Ockham's logic and the mentalization of sign
Ockham's logic marks an important, though not the only important, step in the process that might be described as a progressive ‘mentalization’ of sign. The idea behind this process is the contention that without some sort of ‘intentionality’ the phenomena of sign, signification…
Noam Chomsky Slams Žižek And Lacan: Empty ‘posturing’ | Open Culture
Scientific theory vs posturing
What you’re referring to is what’s called “theory.” And when I said I’m not interested in theory, what I meant is, I’m not interested in posturing–using fancy terms like polysyllables and pretending you have a theory when you have no theory whatsoever. So there’s no theory in…
Shared Horizons: Data, Biomedicine, And The Digital Humanities
Parallels between DH and bioinformatics
there are interesting parallels between DH and bioinformatics in the sense that they have both had to grapple with many of the same field-building issues (e.g. how to get credit and recognition within their larger discipline).
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The world as lila, meaningless play
in the Vedanta the whole world is seen as the lila and the maya of the Self, the first word meaning “play” and the second having the complex sense of illusion (from the Latin ludere, to play) magic, creative power, art, and measuring—as when one dances or draws a design to a…
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment
It is hard for compulsive activists to see that the vast social and economic problems of the world cannot be settled by mere effort and technique. The outsider cannot just barge in like Santa Claus and put things to right—especially our kind of outsider who, because he has no…
Being amazed at the usual
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd—uncanny and highly improbable. G. K. Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at a gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite…
IT cannot be made an object
The difficulty is not only that language is dualistic, insofar as words are labels for mutually exclusive classes. The problem is that IT is so much more myself than I thought I was, so central and so basic to my existence, that I cannot make it an object. There is no way to…
The separate ego is a fiction
the more it becomes clear that to be is to quarrel and to pursue self-interest, the more you are compelled to recognize your need for enemies to support you. In the same way, the more resolutely you plumb the question “Who or what am I?”—the more unavoidable is the realization…
This book is a cross-fertilization of western science with an eastern intuition
We are therefore in urgent need of a sense of our own existence which is in accord with the physical facts and which overcomes our feeling of alienation from the universe. For this purpose I have drawn on the insights of Vedanta, stating them, however, in a completely modern…
Schrödinger: you are all in all
Then there is the other, complementary, side of the picture as presented by the eminent biophysicist Erwin Schrödinger: It is not possible that this unity of knowledge, feeling and choice which you call your own should have sprung into being from nothingness at a given moment…
The Cidoc Conceptual Reference Module: An Ontological Approach To Semantic Interoperability Of Metadata
Historical knowledge reconstructs possible past worlds
Another contribution of this work are considerations about the specific nature of cultural – historical knowledge and reasoning, which aims at the reconstruction of possible past worlds from loosely correlated records rather than at control and prediction of systems, as in…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
A topic can be anything whatsoever
What then is a topic? A topic, in its most generic sense, can be any “thing” whatsoever — a person, an entity, a concept, really anything — regardless of whether it exists or has any other specific characteristics, about which anything whatsoever may be asserted by any means…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
The CRM definition of a period
Definition is the most important information category. It is about defining every notion of period in a specialized way. Cultural period is a multidimensional concept about complex interrelations between cultural phenomena. The CIDOC CRM defines the basic notion of a period…
Events are not causal to the identity of a period
Some events are closely related to the definition of a period. We mark them as starting event or terminating event. A frequent intuition is that some kind of distinct event should be responsible for the upcoming of a new cultural phase (as required by Biers 1992). The…