001744

I found this discussion informative and useful, granting that the respondents are, primarily, 2. But there’s nearly no sophisticated discussion on this topic, and this is, at least, an example of relatively insightful and thoughtful discussion on a topic that is...

001749

Knowledge is deceptive in the sense that it implies completeness and ‘grasp’; but it is the unknown we must plumb if our goal is insight, discovery.. and intelligence.

001754

In my new walk and talk I discuss the power of anomaly to penetrate the standing illusions that delimit and calcify our transentient nature as human beings.

001756

Was listening today to the following debate. I find both minds interesting, and though Peterson is often reviled, I really enjoy his mind. As Eric Weinstein says, ‘I don’t go into a restaurant and order the entire menu’. Same with JP. I learn all...

001758

In our modern temporal ontologies, we have a problem. It’s similar to the problem we may have had with the idea that the world is flat. We measure time as if there’s only a single world line or light cone, which is impossible (and conceptually disabling)....

001760

There is an old sciend fiction story called ‘The Magic Goes Away’ which tells of a world that alternates between epochs of magic and technology. I raed it when I was young. The modern world appears to be in a not entirely dissimilar situation, in that, we...