The Von Neumann Mind: Constructing Meaning
"Words possess what in philosophy is often called intentionality, after Franz Brentano, who applied this concept to the study of the mind in 1874. The word comes from Latin tendere, to stretch, and illustrates the idea that a symbol somehow ‘stretches out’ into the world, connecting with its referent."
by Jochen Szangolies
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2021/10/the-von-neumann-mind-constructing-meaning.html
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( I just order this. I will let ya'll know.)
Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
Kieran Setiya (Author)
"There is no cure for the human condition: life is hard. But Kieran Setiya believes philosophy can help. He offers us a map for navigating rough terrain, from personal trauma to the injustice and absurdity of the world."
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Hyperintelligence: Art, AI, and the Limits of Cognition.
"It’s here that we must confront the second fallacy of AI doomism: not only can intelligence not simply be ordered along a scale, with AI coming out above humans, it can also not be localized solely in the individual, but is, rather, a collaborative social phenomenon."
by Jochen Szangolies
Thinking together
Steps to an ecology of mind.
Philosopher Paul Tillich posits that when social sensemaking fails to keep up with reality, we experience it as a kind of mass neurosis. Everybody has a crisis of meaning at the same time. Life stops making sense.
"The user-generated content era, where most information is produced/consumed by users, in a tight feedback loop between attention allocation and content"
By Gordon Brander
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To Watch:
Awakening to the Meaning Crisis – An interesting Conversation
Why Buddhism Is True) and John Vervaeke (University of Toronto). Recorded October 27, 2022.
53 Episodes. start here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncd6q9uIEdw
the rest.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
(repost because it is that good.)
Walking, Seeing, Thinking
Towards a Planet-Wide Census of Legs, Eyes, and Minds.
"I suspect that minds are more like legs than like eyes, in that we could not even in principle hope to make an exhaustive census of them. I’m not a full-fledged Spinozist on this question; I’m not convinced that we’ve got a thought thing wherever we’ve got a going thing (but who knows?)."
Justin E. H. Smith
https://justinehsmith.substack.com/p/walking-seeing-thinking
Attuned to the aesthetic
The ultimate value of the world can be discovered if you are sensitive to what is beautiful
"I’m not asking whether value is purely up to us or not. I’m asking what we value, or should value. Even if we think that value is something that we do, or is in some sense made out of pleasure, we can still wonder what those valuing activities should be directed at, or in what things we can take pleasure."
By Tom Cochrane
https://aeon.co/essays/why-aesthetic-value-should-take-priority-over-moral-value
Philosophy and Where One Stands
"But philosophy would seem to have another job as well. That is to examine the ground on which one stands—the local, the singular, as opposed to the general and universal. After all, each of us thinks of ourselves as bearing some set of properties that makes us unique, and we think of the spaces in which we live as equally singular."
Dwight Furrow
https://philosophyawayoflife.com/2022/10/26/philosophy-and-where-one-stands/
Presumably, most people want to improve their morality because this would benefit others, but is this in fact their primary motivation? The strongest predictor of moral motivation was the extent to which people believed that making the change would have positive consequences for their own well-being.
Aquinas's Second Way: An Analysis
"Why do we need to assume that there must be a final, grounding fundamental force? If each member of the set is explained by a more fundamental, causally 'prior' member, then where is the problem? This is, admittedly, to return to the classic Humean objection."
By John Danaher
https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2022/10/aquinass-second-way-analysis.html
Stoicism
Out Of Indifference
"But what of the rest of us? Though it is a privilege that we may slowly be running out of, that of not finding ourselves in critical situations of calamity and suffering. The Stoics were not proselytizing to heroes, their philosophy is for everyone: it is a coolness for everyday life and everyday people. What kind of an ideal is this?"
by Ada Bronowski
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/10/out-of-indifference.html
( after talking to a philosophy grad student, on some related topics, I was recommended these two books. Now ordered from my local bookstore.)
Thought y'all might be interested.
Transformative Experience
L. A. Paul (Author)
https://bookshop.org/p/books/transformative-experience-l-a-paul/9782530
And
Epistemic Injustice
Miranda Fricker (Author)
https://bookshop.org/p/books/epistemic-injustice-miranda-fricker/9685727
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A Locus of Care
Some Memories of the Life and Work of Bruno Latour (1947-2022)
"Bruno Latour was honest and generous, and I don’t think there’s any question he took up that was not, for him, a true matter of concern. He was one of our era’s best guides between the eternal Scylla and Charybdis of dogmatism and skepticism."
By Justin E. H. Smith
On Bruno Latour (1947–2022)
The world was his laboratory
"If his flirtation with social constructivism left him with few allies among mainstream sociologists, he managed to alienate those still on his side when, in the 1980s, he began to develop and proselytize on behalf of Actor-Network Theory, an alternative approach to sociological research."
By Ava Kofman
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-bruno-latour-1947-2022/
Two essays about "Good and Evil"
By Andrew Bard Schmookler
This Force — transmitting that “pattern of brokenness” – is something we can see, I said, “the way we ‘see’ the wind in the swaying of the trees and the flapping of the clothes on the line.”
1. The Discernible Reality Of A “Force Of Evil”
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/09/the-discernible-reality-of-a-force-of-evil.html
2. How Civilization Inevitably Gives Rise To A “Battle Between Good And Evil”
A New Philosophy Of Planetary Computation
Introducing Antikythera, a new program to examine the implications of an unfolding radical philosophical event: the emergence of planetary-scale computation.
“What is at stake is not simply a better philosophical orientation, but the futures before us that must be conceived and built.”
https://www.noemamag.com/a-new-philosophy-of-planetary-computation/
to watch:
(I like Sean, but the other guy is a total, almost unwatchable, asshole)
Sean Carroll: Children, Philosophy & the Meaning of Life
a review of:
Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience
Sophie Grace Chappell (Author)
You Owe Me an Argument
Epiphanies can prompt us to view the world differently, a new book contends. But they are no substitute for ethical and political debate.
Rachel Fraser
https://bostonreview.net/articles/you-owe-me-an-argument
Book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/epiphanies-an-ethics-of-experience-sophie-grace-chappell/18397207
New Folks
Some of my favorite Hashtags
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Just type them into the search box, (just above the text entry box),
And a new column will appear on the right, you can then "pin" that and make it permeant.
Time doesn’t flow like a river. So why do we feel swept along?
"Change in the world appears to flow smoothly because our perceptual systems transform moving objects in the same way they do static frames of Jackie Chan: they superimpose a dynamism on to them that they do not possess."
By Nick Young
https://psyche.co/ideas/time-doesnt-flow-like-a-river-so-why-do-we-feel-swept-along
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"