... not possess a “G-d, I hate Joe Lieberman” neuron. I wish I did. By extension, if the parts are not aware of what they are doing, the whole isn’t either, at least not in a strong, Cartesian sense. So much for consciousness. There must be a reason why minds exist, but it may be as trivial as the reason men have nipples. This begs several questions: where then do beliefs arise? What is the basis of ...
... and independently of them. A text has meaningful content only insofar as it has good grammar and style. That is to say, I'm not interested in the "good ideas" that allegedly exist in some Cartesian space inside my students' heads; I'm interested in the ideas that are discernible in their work. To be sure, you can get away with a great deal of stylistic and grammatical carelessness in many casual...
... talking to him about sartre and the fracturing of the cogito and all the things i'd alreadybanged my head against til it was bruised with nate (i am serious when i say he is too, sickeningly cartesian in every respect. proper pigheaded enlightenment man. eugh.) and then given up and looked at the bar in exasperation like i could get a word in edgeways there. she said that's where i'd come up in ...
...who lacked the clues provided by the Conclusions. The esoteric intention of Pico's thought, proclaimed emphatically in the Oration, is the feature that most distances it from the whole project of post-Cartesian philosophy in the West and also from earlier philosophies outside the Platonictradition. Wishing not just to mystify but also to provoke, Pico succeeded and paid the price of the Church's ...
... -- a migrations system to turn it into "new" data. To cope with this, I built a system where each class had multiple versions, and inheriting from classes was a "magical" operation that could perform a cartesian product of classes. In short, if I had a FooObject class with versions 1, 2, and 3, and I created a BarObject which inherited from FooObject, I'd get a BarObject version that subclassed ...
Похоже, что Декарт отвечал на вопрос про "Unreasonable effectiveness" за 300 лет до того как его задали. Причем похоже, что лучше все равно не ответишь.
..., and there's something about farm animals and now we're done." There's a change in story focus from "AIs mediate reincarnation" to "what are the AI motives?" that causes a major story wobble. "The Cartesian Theater", Robert Charles Wilson: flashback story about death and the soul, in a sort of hard-boiled venue. It's like a perfect recipe to make me say "meh", until the last paragraph, where it ...
... the same thing necessarily real? That's what my experiments in auto-epistemology have been about. I'm curious as to whether the notion of an "unmasked self" is part of the same cognitive illusion as the Cartesian homonculus, or whether it's something with a real basis in biology and psychology. As I said, I've got some reading and some thinking to do. Thanks for bearing with me. "Great," the ...
