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Friday, March 02, 2018

Coordinates of Existence

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The following phrase popped into my head this morning: coordinates of existence . It must be the tip of a post, or at least of a Friday Ram...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

By and For the Useless

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We've been discussing certain fundamentals and even requirements of existence, such as necessity and contingency, absolute and infinite,...
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Monday, February 26, 2018

Good and Bad Nothingness

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Something that exists or has happened is a realized possibility , meaning that it must have been possible in principle . Moreover, it must ...
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Friday, February 23, 2018

On the Necessity of Possibility

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What is the best way to know whether something is possible? Well, if something exists, then it was possible for it to exist. Likewise, i...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Circular and Absurcular Humanism

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I guess you could say I am preoccupied with What a Man Can Know -- not through any special science or particular culture, nor in any certain...
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Monday, February 19, 2018

Homo Mirabilis

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Which means the "human miracle," or, more to our point, that the human station itself is our most concrete evidence of the miracul...
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Friday, February 16, 2018

How to Fail at Humanness

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The usual Friday ramble... I have nothing concrete or practical to say about the recent school shooting. It does, however, remind me of som...
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Thursday, February 15, 2018

Apology for Anthropology

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I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but when I resume blogging after a couple days away, it's like waking up and trying to resu...
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Monday, February 12, 2018

In Search of the Missing Cosmic Trust Fund

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We're all familiar with the mystery of dark matter, which only constitutes, oh, 84.5% of the total mass of the universe, but is neverth...
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Friday, February 09, 2018

Drowning in Acid and Calling it Truth

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In a recent video, Jordan Peterson uses the analogy of an iceberg to illustrate how people can appear to be standing on two different surfac...
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Thursday, February 08, 2018

Nothing Can't Explain Anything, Let Alone Everything

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What ceases to be thought qualitatively so as to be thought quantitatively ceases to be thought significantly . --Dávila Continuing with ou...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2018

Science, Magic, Metaphysics

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The question before the bus is whether we need math, or logic, or some special science in order to understand the totality of existence, or ...
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Monday, February 05, 2018

How is Possibility Possible?

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This note to myself last Friday seemed urgent at the time, but I haven't thought about it since, and now we have to figure out why it wa...
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Thursday, February 01, 2018

What You See is What You Grok. Or Hallucinate.

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A note to myself in the margin says "What you see is what you grok." I've never actually read Stranger in a Strange Land , so ...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018

The Cosmic Eclipse

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Here is how a man loses the cosmos, and then proceeds to become lost in it. Pay close attention: First, reduce the world "from act to...
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