Excel didn’t kill accountants; it gave them better tools. Yet, with AI, we’ve abandoned this logic in favor of a collective fantasy. We’re treating a sophisticated calculator as a human replacement rather than a human multiplier.
#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
i am enjoying reading the Boris Groys book on Alexandrfe Kojeve... it's strange how my overiding impression is that he could only write and think like that in the period he lived in 1902-1968 in neoliberalism it would have been impossible. #poitics #philosophy
"*monarchy: royalty or tyranny; the rule of the few: aristocracy or oligarchy; the rule of the many: democracy (regularly constituted popular government or mob rule).302d-eThe seventh must be set apart from all the others, as God is set apart from men. 303b"
"We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder."
Mono no aware
I just got the news. I am stunned. Just y’day I was discussing with H that this could be a possibility. Yet, the odds were low.
I feel unmoored.
I didn’t plan for this.
But, instincts kick in. When you’ve lived your whole life trying to manage crises and fighting fires for others, you’ve also built skills of your own.
I stem the panic. And focus.
This isn’t just happening to me. There are some other key people who are involved too. If I feel this way, they must be feeling it so much more. I reach out.
…
I run up the stairs and confer with H. You know the thing that we were discussing y’day and said is such low probability – we laugh. Our bodies are tense and still reeling with the news. However, our mind is active, defusing the situation.
She asks – are you doing okay? I reply, still amused. I am ambivalent. I feel confused and uncertain. I feel the load of our future, yet feel weirdly lighter.
We confer. Let’s take a quick look at numbers. Alright. There might be cause for concern, but it’s not immediate.
Escape to reality. We have to prepare for the night and put O to sleep.
I lay in bed, eyes wide awake, adrenaline coursing through my body. I know that sleep is going to be terrible.
Yet, I fall asleep.
It’s restless.
It’s 3:30am.
My alarm is quietly buzzing my wrist. Instinct kicks in. I plant my feet on the ground. It’s a trick I learned to wake up early in the mornings. There’s something about the feet touching the ground that just pushes your body awake. The carpet is warm.
I reach for my glasses. I put them on and amble up the stairs to the coffee machine.
I take a deep breath.
It all comes flooding back in. I jab the power button of the coffee machine, in a desperate attempt to control the emotions. I succeed. The ritual triggers something. My brain slows down to focus on making the coffee.
Grind the beans.
Tamp the filter.
Pull.
The aroma wrapped around me comforting me in its warm embrace and tickling my brain into being present, even if only for a moment.
My brain brings up mono no aware. It’s a Japanese philosophy that celebrates the pathos of impermanence.
I slow my pace.
I look at the crema of the espresso.
I gently walk to the refrigerator. I grab the milk. I tip the kettle of warm water into the shot carefully to preserve as much of the crema as possible. I trickle a thimble of milk into the cup.
I place the carton back into the fridge and walk with the mug on to the table. I open my journal.
I jot – Today is the first day of the rest of my life!
I feel tension relieving.
I smile as I think of the namesake song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J76S5q_ETfo
Mono no aware 物の哀れ
Today’s the first day of the rest of my life!
#journal #Life #philosophy"[…] the simple-minded positivism that believes it has found a firm ground of certainty if it only excludes all mental phenomena from consideration and holds fast to observable facts."
"Private Property and Communism, p. 43."
"Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.""
Was sollen denn die Leuten denken
👉 https://whisper7.substack.com/p/was-sollen-den-die-leuten-denken
#Philosophie #Sprache #Selbstreflexion #Gesellschaft #Wahrnehmung #Denken
What Are People Supposed to Think
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#Philosophy #Language #SelfReflection #Society #Perception #Thinking
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Leo Groarke has revised his SEP-entry on Informal Logic, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-informal/
The 2019 WSIA-volume on Informal Logic mentioned at the introduction is a nice additional resource, https://windsor.scholarsportal.info/omp/index.php/wsia/catalog/book/123, and the Journal Informal Logic offers a glimpse of some current discussions, https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic
Groarke's entry provides a list of OIR's, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-informal/#Oth, including to the hilarious Arguer's Lexicon, https://web.colby.edu/arguerslexicon/, and some entries in the Bibliography are available online.
#logic #informalLogic #argument #argumentation #reasoning #epistemology #tietoteoria #philosophy #filosofia #ajattelu #thinking #science #rhetoric #abduction #sep #pseudoScience
Fuck Jesús Padilla Gálvez (born 1959)
"Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage."
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." #stoicism #life #philosophy
Last year I finally got around to asking/questioning my belief in what I call the God entity.
I'm slightly religious but I don't believe in God the way the holy bible says. I'm more of the thought that if there is or was a God entity that entity was what we would call a rational God.
And since I'm a big fan of studying the ways of the Jedi and the belief in the force I am interested in what others think of these notions.
#metaphysics #philosophy #meaningoflifequestions
"“New friends, however, will not be the same.” No, nor will you yourself remain the same; you change with every day and every hour."
"To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength."
Existenzialismus am Morgen vertreibt Kummer und Sorgen
https://whisper7.substack.com/p/existenzialismus-am-morgen-vertreibt
#Philosophie #Gesundheit #Wohlbefinden #Selbstreflexion #Sprache #Innenwelt #Existenzialismus
Existentialism in the Morning Drives Away Worry and Sorrow
https://whisper7.substack.com/p/existentialism-in-the-morning-drives
#Philosophy #Health #Wellness #SelfReflection #Language #InnerWorld #Existentialism
