Aether
Is Incalculability a Defense for Ignorance?
We talk a good deal about pragmatism. It’s as if being pragmatic sidesteps more difficult issues that require time and cerebral resources to sort. Time and cerebral resources we hope to apply to something else, something of more immediate resolve. Some might say, “Don’t worry about the [...]
The Time-independent World Order
I recently read two pieces a synthesis of which might be interpreted to say that all we can hope for in life is to concoct an artifice which distracts us from the impending and concurrent oblivion of purposelessness which would otherwise crush us. This is not idle nihilistic navel gazing, though [...]
How can we expect a thing whose success is built on competition and war, to ever truly want, let alone achieve, peace? There is no peace in evolution nor in innovation, nor in sport nor in ambition. The only peace is death, and so as death is the utter defeat of a system, [...]
The University of Oxford has apparently taken £2M toward answering “Why do we believe in God?” From the Times article:
They will not attempt to solve the question of whether God exists but they will examine evidence to try to prove whether belief in God conferred an evolutionary advantage to mankind. They will also consider [...]
On the virtues of being an asshole, crazy people, bowel movements, and divinity.
On The Secrets of Mariko
On the surface, the Japanese middle class seems an exemplification of social development. Middle class families in Japan enjoy relative economic prosperity, low crime rates, and one of the most highly regarded primary educational systems in the world. Forces of nature, however, are conservative: there can be no gain [...]
Foundations
Consider the first few decisions you’ll make tomorrow morning:
what to wear
what to eat for breakfast
what route or means to get to work
There is for each decision a finite set of choices. Imagine you wrote all the available options for each choice on notecards, and laid them out before you on a table. There [...]
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