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Next Step - May 2007

Gotta go home brother

May 25th 2007 19:50
I have a man I know who tries to narrate his existence.

He has two friends over and he tries to take them on an existence, he flirts whith existence as he has learned a new game whith which he feels good to share. he knows not if he plays with fire, perhaps he doesn't. but we know that he doesn't know either way. Instead he plays with his toy, the toy of sharing, as he hassto


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It seems to me that self-reflexivity is the final destination of just about everything.

Once something reaches self-reflexivity there is nowhere left to go


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Rant

May 14th 2007 07:43
MATURE CONTENT
   


Love

May 11th 2007 17:07
I'm not willing to rule it out.


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Brains in vats and skepticism

May 10th 2007 14:49
This kind of Radical Skepticism which causes people to lie awake at night, worried that they might be brains in vats is totally ridiculous. Here's my understanding of Husserl's critique of what happens when we use a naturalistic way of thinking to reflect on ourselves.

The naturalistic view is that our senses receive information from the objective external world. They then send that information to the area of the brain where the information can be processed and understood and used to form beliefs. Coupled with some desire, these beliefs cause us to form some intention, which causes ue to act in the external world, giving us the ability to alter the external world, thus the cycle continues. Everything from perception to intention takes place in the internal, subjective world


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We have reached the end of our evolutionary tether.

Now we can wait there, quite conceivably, for an unthinkably long period of time. For we have no evolutionary pressure, no threat, no stimulus, no reason to change. But, if something were to 'catch up' with us, there would be a very short and decisive race to see who will proceed. Alternatively, we might progress by ourselves, by dumb luck, or I should say evolutionary luck


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