philosophy | philosophy
Apr.30.2008
This semester I'm on sabbatical, and part of my project is to pair poems/short stories with each chapter in Eckhart Tolle's book, The Power of Now. I use Tolle's book in my Critical Thinking class, and have been winging it each time with the selections of literature. Now I'm involved in...
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Apr.23.2008
In this season of politics and controversy, let me offer the following:
The framers of the U.S. Constitution forged their historic document during the late Eighteen Century, a time when many of the populace--some free and some not--tilled land. Large families often provided a network of security...
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Apr.18.2008
Dearly Beloveds!
My adored mother-in-law has been through a really rotten patch. It’s been building ever since the death of my father-in-law several years ago. It was a terrible time: there he was, wilting away at home, and she was in the hospital having this awful heart surgery. She was too ill...
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Apr.10.2008
So now we know that pidgeons can distinguish between picasso and monet, by the mere style of the artwork. Does this mean 1) that we are not as bright as we thought, 2) pidgeons are much brighter than we thought, or 3) that some of the mental abilities we consider to be among the best our large...
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Apr.10.2008
There are 10 to the 25th atoms in a kilogram of matter. Atoms, as you might know, have been demonstrated to have storage/computational ability. See http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993129
A single human brain has about 10 to the 19th computations per second. As a point of...
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Apr.05.2008
"I do not believe in God, but I have the sense of the infinite. No one has a spirit more religious than mine. Ceaselessly I strike against insoluble questions. The only questions I admit willingly are all insoluble. The others could only be asked by unimaginative beings and hold no interest...
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Mar.01.2008
One of the more interesting quotes I've read recently was from Heraclitus: "You could not discover the limits of soul, even if you traveled by every path in order to do so; such is the depth of its meaning."
What is the soul? I fell in love with reading poems and stories and novels...
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