Babysteps in Belief-Building
“The richness an enshrined contradiction gives to a belief system and world cannot be understated.”
philosophy
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My father drives a car.
In England, my father drives a car. It is black and shiny and slick and unscratched. Throughout it, gadgets warm seats, gauge performance, mollify and coddle. Tech-fairies transmit signals through the air, so that his other devices, his extended digital self, integrates with it thoroughly. It purrs as it drives down the road. It fits
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Belated Guardian hagiography
” a wonderful book which makes me consider games more.”
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There’s nice.
“…a fascinating trip through the philosophical canon, showing how games illustrate key existential questions.”
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What Choice Is
This is what choice is. The universe is deterministic. Most objects in the universe don’t have control over their direction through it. However all objects have randomised internal structures. Some of those randomised structures resulted in inheritance – that is successor objects which retained protected elements of the previous objects, normally tiny. Once these were
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Moral Incontinence (akrasia) and Technology
To the tune of: Akrasia by James Falzone I have a problem with tech – I’m morally incontinent (stop your giggling at the back, Jenkins!), in that my mind is slightly spoiled so it strongly seeks pleasure, even when I know that the good thing is something else. Plato called it ‘akrasia’, and it implies
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Come On Nietzsche
Come on Nature by the Proclaimers. Why did I assume they were saying “Come On Nietzsche”? Would they walk five thousand miles to see some shadows cast on a cave wall? Would they send a letter to America declaring the death of god? The only link between them and the ubermensch is twin studies… This