A city: driving at its centre, which was not a centre at all but an intersection through green lights, it occured to me that cars originate from worlds that are clearly imaginary and so form a planet that fails to be fully real, however familiar the objects from which it stems seem, because, well, imaginary is what imaginary wants. It… [Read more…]
November 26, 2007
Only rational strategems exist. There is no rationality. It is not possible to predicate the logically conditional with the logically absolute; because only the circumstantial is absolute! The strategem is to take into account one’s lack of rationality. One hunts the animal but that can only be as it is rather than according to a scripted (or an idealised) procedure.… [Read more…]
November 21, 2007
It’s self-fulfilling of me isn’t it? The human species is unique because it is stuffed with megalomaniacs.
November 21, 2007
The fact that we think that we are a unique, special species in the universe is connected with the fact that something is wrong with us. It seems a vague thing to suggest. But the observation is real enough; it is precise enough in detail. To point out just one of the many disadvantages this attitude has for us,… [Read more…]
November 15, 2007
The human condition suggests something very simple. That we haven’t yet been able to grasp the nature of human reality.
November 15, 2007
If one is to take NATURE as one’s rule stick, the assumption that humanity is at the top of a hierarchical structure seems unjustified and unjustifiable. The idea that we are pre-eminent in nature is not a scientific finding. What is strange is that such a value system has to derive from non-factual sense, which is… [Read more…]
November 13, 2007
Is it to be understood that one field of behaviours can be called objective and the other can’t? Or is all human behaviour subjective? (“Or is the idea of ‘objectivity’ itself a form of subjectivity?”) Walk down the street. Everyone has a different face. Everyone exists in their own style. Is that subjective? “In an objective world there… [Read more…]
November 13, 2007
What compels us to say: “That is not really a baby smiling. That is just a mechanism by which genes reproduce themselves.” “The baby isn’t actually smiling.” “That is just our human subjectivity. It isn’t objectively real.” Do people only smile ‘subjectively’? What might it mean to say: he didn’t actually smile? “The whole thing… [Read more…]
November 12, 2007
“Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.” What sets this in concrete – ? These words summon up a picture of certainty. “… the sex cells or ‘gametes’ of males are much smaller and more numerous than the gametes of females …” Page… [Read more…]
September 27, 2007
A 14th C. altarpiece Virgin and Child with Saints: This is what is shown; the painting shows each saint in profile; each bearing the same expression, each has the same alert slightly narrowed eyes (revealed by the one eye visible) in a face sombre, reverent, pure, serene. The painting’s meaning is shown clear in each expression. (Collectively in mood embodied… [Read more…]
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