An experimental personal conceptual knowledgebase.
A blog-based commonplace book.
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03, 2021
Gross, Subtle, Causal as variously integrated neural networks
Ken Wilber identifies major categories of transcendent mystic states as [...]
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03, 2021
Evolutionary emergence of cybernetic agency in Dennett, Turchin, Pirsig
In Kinds of Minds and From Bacteria to Bach [...]
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02, 2021
The domain-relative good
Justice is the good in the social domain Truth is [...]
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01, 2021
Truth as an asymptote
"Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the [...]
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12, 2019
The Form of the Good illuminates
In Plato's theory of Forms, the Form of the Good [...]
9
12, 2019
The second face of power
Power is not only exercised in its overt "first face" [...]
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10, 2019
Winning selfish competition is enabled by selfless cooperation at a lower level of organization
"Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. [...]
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09, 2019
Conspicuous consumption imposes society-wide negative externalities
The social status competition associated with severe income inequality generates [...]
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02, 2019
Not the “up above” but the “up ahead”
Tielhard de Chardin / evolutionary epic
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02, 2019
Observational Context Determines Syntax/Semantics
Syntax becomes semantics for an observing subject when a syntax processor [...]