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Alan Watts ~ Society Is A Hoax , Take Control Of Your Life - Youtube
Alan Watts on being born
"You are something not that comes into the world, but comes out of it."
An Introduction To Obo Ontologies
Class-level and instance-level relations
Relations (also called "relationship types" in this guide, or "Properties" in other description logic languages) model types of relationships between entities. Any given relation can be applied in two ways, as "class level" relations, or as "instance level" relations. Class…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
The feeling of being separate from the world
This is in contrast to how we normally perceive the world; which is that the world exists outside of us and that we are separate from it.
Calvinism (wikipedia Contributors)
Spread of calvinism in europe
Due to Calvin's missionary work in France, his programme of reform eventually reached the French-speaking provinces of the Netherlands. Calvinism was adopted in the Electoral Palatinate under Frederick III, which led to the formulation of the Heidelberg Catechism in 1563. This…
Edge.org
Consciousness and subjective experience
Our usual rule of thumb for the presence of consciousness is to assess, based on superficial cues, how similar to ourselves something appears to be. Thus a dog is more conscious than a duck, which in turn is more conscious than a daffodil. But our intuitions about so many…
Inheritability is not the inverse of mutability
Inheritability is not the inverse of mutability, and to say that the heritability of a trait is high is not to say that the environment has no effect because heritability scores are themselves affected by the environment. Take the case of height. In the rich world, the…
Erik Davis - On Psychedelics
Psychedelics as a paradox for materialists
Rarely has the new neuro-reductionism been so naked in its repackaging of human experience. Nowhere in the research or the journalism does anyone suggest that heavily depressed people feel better because ketamine sends them on a first-person voyage through profound, sometimes…
The paradox that psychedelic substances present to brain-based reductionists
By sweeping such sublimities under the rug of toxic ‘side effects’, the researchers and their partners in industry want to sidestep the remarkable paradox that psychedelic substances present to brain-based reductionists: psychedelics are material molecules that frequently…
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Inform: interactive fiction in natural language
Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world's best-known writers of…
How Books Will Become Machines
Book and encyclopedia as antagonistic technologies
Even if Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopedia is entitled Dic- tionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, its ambition is to be much more than a dictionary. The encyclopedia has aimed since its genesis at being in continuous expansion in order to en- compass the…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
The world, our life, is neither good nor bad
That which we now call the world is the result of a crowd of errors and fancies which gradually developed in the general evolution of organic nature, have grown together and been transmitted to us as the accumulated treasure of all the past—as the treasure, for whatever is…
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…
The world is neither good nor bad; men are the ultimate root of these ideas
What earthly reason could anyone have for being an optimist unless he had a god to defend who must have created the best of all possible worlds, since he is himself all goodness and perfection?—but what thinking man has now any need for the hypothesis that there is a god?—There…
Religion against religions
The Breaking off of Churches.—There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.
I’m Still Here: Back Online After A Year Without The Internet | The Verge
The internet is reprogramming our relationships, our emotions, and our sensitivity
A couple weeks later, I found myself among 60,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews, pouring into New York's Citi Field to learn from the world's most respected rabbis about the dangers of the internet. Naturally. Outside the stadium, I was spotted by a man brandishing one of my own articles…
Jan Patocka - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Main themes in the philosophy of jan patocka
His works mainly dealt with the problem of the original, given world (Lebenswelt), its structure and the human position in it. He tried to develop this basically Husserlian concept under the influence of some core Heideggerian themes (e.g. historicity, technicity, etc.) On the…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Un sentiero spirituale per migliorare il mondo
Seguire un sentiero spirituale non vuol dire abbandonare il mondo ma lavorare per migliorarlo. Lama Gangchen
Lessons From My Career Change: Five Ways To Make Your Move Sustainable | Guardian Careers | Guardian Professional
Career change: take conscious action
Recognise what you can and cannot control, and do things with purpose. I cannot change the world around me. I cannot change others. But I do have control over my thoughts and actions. I don't have to live subject to the things or people I experience. I choose how I treat…
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
The ontology of the observer; languaging is the central problem
For Einstein, scientific theories were seen as the free creations of the human mind which we used to explain the world - but for Maturana, what needs explaining is precisely this "free creation of the human mind", i.e. the way in which the observer brings forth his world. Thus…
Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
Pure experience
For Nishida, experience in its original form is not the exercise of individuals equipped with sensory and mental abilities who contact an exterior world; rather it precedes the differentiation into subject experiencing and object experienced, and the individual is formed out of…
The world mirrors itself in everything
In a sense awareness is irreducible, but it has a logical structure that accounts for its connection to a world of objects. Structurally, awareness mirrors itself in itself, in a manner analogous to the way an infinite set mirrors itself in its equivalent subsets, or to the way…
Ontologies And Knowledge Bases: Towards A Terminological Clarification
General ontology vs regional ontology
Aristotle defined Ontology as the science of being as such: unlike the special sciences, each of which investigates a class of beings and their determinations, Ontology regards “all the species of being qua being and the attributes which belong to it qua being” (Aristotle…
Ontological theory
An ontological theory contains formulas which are considered to be always true (and therefore sharable among multiple agents), independently of particular states of affairs. Formally, we can say that such formulas must be true in every possible world. [...] an ontological…
Rdfs Vs. Owl - Cambridge Semantics
1st Difference: Vocabular
1st Difference: Vocabulary Of the differences between RDFS and OWL, the most important is just that OWL provides a far, far larger vocabulary that you can use to say things. For example, OWL includes all your old friends from RDFS such as rdfs:type, rdfs:domain, and…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
Film sets that make dreams
‘So do I,’ she said, laughing. ‘I love it. They put it all together from painted canvas and skinny pieces of wood and it’s … it’s like they’re making dreams or something. I know that sounds corny, but I mean it. I love this world, Lin, and I don’t want to go back to the other…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
God, the world and the self
Abruptly, almost with a pop, my mind cleared and I came back to myself. I was utterly calm and centered . . . ominously so. I felt I had acceded to a higher type of thought, something still in the process of evolution, and was thinking with a speed and urgency previously only…
I was everything
Turning a corner in the path, Step 4 struck with blinding clarity. I knew exactly what I was. I was everything. There was the same huge influx of energy as the previous summer. The same astonishment that all my life I could have overlooked the utterly obvious. The same roaring…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
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…
Without enjoyment we have nothing to give
The reason is not just that we are too much in a hurry and have no sense of the present; not just that we cannot afford the type of labor that such things would now involve, nor just that we prefer money to materials. The reason is that we have scrubbed the world clean of…
Exhausted mines
The standard-brand religions, whether Jewish, Christian, Mohammedan, Hindu, or Buddhist, are—as now practiced—like exhausted mines: very hard to dig. With some exceptions not too easily found, their ideas about man and the world, their imagery, their rites, and their notions of…
From the Ceramic Model to the Crackpot Model
Another powerful image is the Ceramic Model of the universe, in which we think of it as so many forms of one or more substances, as pots are forms of clay, and as God is said to have created Adam from the dust. This has been an especially troublesome image, bewildering…
From God the Potter to the automatic machine
The image also gave everyone a sense of importance and meaning. For this God is directly aware of every tiniest fragment of dust and vibration of energy, since it is just his awareness of it that enables it to be. This awareness is also love and, for angels and men at least, he…
Death as the off interval of a pulsation
Is it possible that myself, my existence, so contains being and nothing that death is merely the “off” interval in an on/off pulsation which must be eternal—because every alternative to this pulsation (e.g., its absence) would in due course imply its presence? Is it…
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself—through our eyes and it’s
After people die, babies are born—and, unless they are automata, every one of them is, just as we ourselves were, the “I” experience coming again into being. The conditions of heredity and environment change, but each of those babies incarnates the same experience of being…
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…
Why evil things?
“You may ask why God sometimes hides in the form of horrible people, or pretends to be people who suffer great disease and pain. Remember, first, that he isn’t really doing this to anyone but himself. Remember, too, that in almost all the stories you enjoy there have to be bad…
The skin is a bridge as much as a barrier
The skin is always considered as a wall, barrier, or boundary which definitively separates oneself from the world—despite the fact that it is covered with pores breathing air and with nerve-ends relaying information. The skin informs us just as much as it outforms; it is as…
Self is other and here is there
Yet in this moment when one seems about to become a really total zombie, the whole thing blows up. For there is no fate unless there is someone or something to be fated. There is no trap without someone to be caught. There is, indeed, no compulsion unless there is also freedom…
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 Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
Infographics strive for objectivity, not self-expression
Rather than serving as a means for the artist to express her inner world and feelings, an infographic or visualization strives for objectivity, precision and functionality, as well as beauty.
Form follows function and the Lamarckian fallacy
Another problem with Sullivan’s law is that the sentence “form follows function” indicates that the relationship between the two components is unidirectional. [..] The problem is that the world doesn’t work that way. A species doesn’t feel a need first (the function) and then…
Tim Lott – Zen Buddhism And Alan Watts
Zen and science
While it is refreshing that Zen philosophy is supported in many ways by present scientific knowledge, it is also a critique of scientific thought. The scientific tradition requires things up to be cut up — both mentally and physically — into smaller and small pieces to…
Where Are The Semantics In The Semantic Web?
Model-theoretic semantics
“A model-theoretic semantics for a language assumes that the language refers to a 'world', and describes the minimal conditions that a world must satisfy in order to assign an appropriate meaning for every expression in the language”. [W3C 2002a] It is used as a technical tool…