Philosophy

I could not put this book down (literally 8 hrs straight), it's "interesting". This is his masterpiece. It's a book for everyone and no one. Umm any review could never be understood without reading it....how could I explain? Anyone else read it. It's strange. [it looks like Jansons has?] - The Real sofarsoShawn

Focusing and finishing... finally…. here with the final remarks of Nietzsche’s in TSZ Part IV he is far from dogmatic. There's this statement I found really hot or academic words: remarkable in its simplistic brilliance, “there’s something to be said in favour of the exception only if does not try to become the rule.” . There’s A LOT of meaning there in what appears to be something only... more... - The Real sofarsoShawn

Thank you for this! :) - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart

That's been my absolute favorite quote since I discovered it a billion years ago. - Akiva

You're very welcome Spicé, I saw your fb & know exctly what you mean. i have a running list of this sort of innate psychological inaccuracies to remind myself "caution, or don't do this", without being aware of them, you fail in logical knowing and reasonable understanding. That's how I write such amazing stuff, the judgment of David, but wiser :) - The Real sofarsoShawn from FFHound!

Quite the conudumb or rather conundrum? (to the terms and REFETENCES! precise). - The Real sofarsoShawn from FFHound!

Isn't that the god of the Jewish people, Andy? - Eivind

"Physics has definitely avoided what were traditionally considered to be foundational physical questions, but the reason for that goes back to the foundation of quantum mechanics. The problem is that quantum mechanics was developed as a mathematical tool. Physicists understood how to use it as a tool for making predictions, but without an agreement or understanding about what it was telling us about the physical world. And that’s very clear when you look at any of the foundational discussions. (...) Sean Carroll for example is very adamant about saying that time is real. You have others saying that time is just an illusion, that there isn’t really a direction of time, and so forth. I myself think that all of the reasons that lead people to say things like that have very little merit, and that people have just been misled, largely by mistaking the mathematics they use to describe reality for reality itself. If you think that mathematical objects are not in time, and mathematical... more... - Amira from Bookmarklet

"What people haven’t seemed to notice is that on earth, of all the billions of species that have evolved, only one has developed intelligence to the level of producing technology. Which means that kind of intelligence is really not very useful. It’s not actually, in the general case, of much evolutionary value. We tend to think, because we love to think of ourselves, human beings, as... more... - Amira

"The most interesting thing about the human species is our plasticity, our flexibility. (…) Over the past 10 years we have started to see powerful evidence that children might learn language statistically, by unconsciously tabulating patterns in the sentences they hear and using these to generalise to new cases. Children might learn language effortlessly not because they possess innate grammatical rules, but because statistical learning is something we all do incessantly and automatically. The brain is designed to pick up on patterns of all kinds. (...) You only have to stroll down the street to see that human beings are learning machines. (...) if you compare us with other species, our degree of variation is just so extraordinary and so obvious that we know prior to doing any science that human beings are special in this regard, and that a tremendous amount of what we do is as a result of learning. So empiricism should be the default position. The rest is just working out the details of how all this learning takes place. (...)" - Amira from Bookmarklet

"Philosophy tells us what is possible, and science tells us what is true. Cognitive science has transformed philosophy. At the beginning of the 20th century, philosophers changed their methodology quite dramatically by adopting logic. There has been an equally important revolution in 21st-century philosophy in that philosophers are turning to the empirical sciences and to some extent... more... - Amira

artificial intelligence :] - !lker yoldas. )°(

"Scientists' greatest pleasure comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in a surprising way. These explanations are called "beautiful" or "elegant". Historical examples are Kepler's explanation of complex planetary motions as simple ellipses, Bohr's explanation of the periodic table of the elements in terms of electron shells, and Watson and Crick's double helix. Einstein famously said that he did not need experimental confirmation of his general theory of relativity because it "was so beautiful it had to be true." Since this question is about explanation, answers may embrace scientific thinking in the broadest sense: as the most reliable way of gaining knowledge about anything, including other fields of inquiry such as philosophy, mathematics, economics, history, political theory, literary theory, or the human spirit. The only requirement is that some simple and non-obvious idea explain some diverse and complicated set of phenomena." - Amira from Bookmarklet

#boingBOING #philosophy is love of wisdom - The Real sofarsoShawn

Okay, I'm going to do something borderline unethical but the convo's funny! I believe he shared it as "limited" after I noticed he was in my Queer Love circle, like he's' gay and from U-S-A!. But you know how they black out the personal information on those funny facebook convos, Imma gonna do that and black out the personal details - The Real sofarsoShawn

“If men were rational in their conduct, that is to say, if they acted in the way most likely to bring about the ends that they deliberately desire, intelligence would be enough to make the world almost a paradise. In the main, what is in the long run advantageous to one man is also advantageous to another. But men are actuated by passions which distort their view; feeling an impulse to injure others, they persuade themselves that it is to their interest to do so. They will not, therefore, act in the way that is in fact to their own interest unless they are actuated by generous impulses which make them indifferent to their own interest. This is why the heart is as important as the head. By the “heart” I mean, for the moment, the sum-total of kindly impulses. (…) And so we come back to the old dilemma: only kindliness can save the world, and even if we knew how to produce kindliness we should not do so unless we were already kindly. Failing that, it seems that the solution which the... more... - Amira from Bookmarklet

See also: Kevin Kelly - Speculations on the future of science, Edge.com http://www.edge.org/3rd_cul... - Amira

"Metamotivation is a term coined by Abraham Maslow to describe the motivation of people who are self actualized and striving beyond the scope of their basic needs to reach their full potential. Maslow suggested that man is initially motivated by a series of basic needs, called the hierarchy of needs. Maslow states, “Self-actualizing people are gratified in all their basic needs (of belongingness, affection, respect, and self-esteem)”. Once a person has successfully navigated the hierarchy of needs thus satisfying all their basic needs, Maslow proposed they then travel “a path called growth motivation”. Maslow believed we must make a distinction between the motives of those who operate at or below the level of self-actualization (ones still striving for their basic needs, or ones who have met their basic needs but still live without purpose), and those who are self actualized who are also with significant purpose, as their motivations differ significantly. Deficiency needs (D-needs)... more... - Amira

light bulb!! Totally awesome idea for a gay pride float! Twilight with Cullen all glitter bombed :) - The Real sofarsoShawn

tee hee...rainbow balloons, filled with glitter & confetti...so when the balloons burst, everyone can be Team Edward... - Prosey BUTTONS!

“In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures. Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real. At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.” — Alan Lightman, American physicist http://bit.ly/ttihs2 - Amira from Bookmarklet

Vagueness is the new profound :) - Eivind