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  • The Memory Bank » Blog Archive » The critique of unequal society on 2009-09-07
    • An ‘anthropology’ is any systematic study of humanity as a whole.

    • From this inauspicious beginning, political society then usually moved, via a series of revolutions, through three stages:


      The establishment of law and the right of property was the first stage, the institution of magistrates the second and the transformation of legitimate into arbitrary power the third and last stage. Thus the status of rich and poor was authorized by the first epoch, that of strong and weak by the second and by the third that of master and slave, which is the last degree of inequality and the stage to which all the others finally lead, until new revolutions dissolve the government altogether and bring it back to legitimacy.

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  • How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later on 2009-08-31
    • “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
    • What I am saying is that objects, customs, habits, and ways of life must perish so that the authentic human being can live. And it is the authentic human being who matters most, the viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new.
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  • Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on 2009-08-28
    • Thus, the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others.
  • Depression's Evolutionary Roots: Scientific American on 2009-08-27
    • But depression is nature’s way of telling you that you’ve got complex social problems that the mind is intent on solving.
  • Slashdot | Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor on 2009-08-23
    • So what of MosesJones's original question, which was entitled "The lack
      of respect?" My answer is that I don't pay that much notice to these
      things because I am aware at some level that I am on one side of the
      bifurcation and most literary critics are on the other, and we simply
      are not that relevant to each other's lives and careers.
  • The origin & nature of understanding on 2009-08-18
    • For many reasons, scientific methods are wholly inadequate to study
      the nature and scope of human understanding itself.
    • He showed how understanding of any object, idea or other phenomenon
      arises through a nexus of human aims or futureward projects wherein it points
      to some end. This is how meaning and hence understanding originally arises.
      A hammer has meaning for us because we can use it in order to knock in nails.
      It is the 'in order to...' aspect of anything that we look to in understanding
      things of this world. We usually regard this inter-connectedness of everything
      in respect of our worldly concerns as being their 'meaning'.
  • Edge: AMAZING BABIES : A Talk With Alison Gopnik on 2009-08-17
    • If you think about that from the perspective of human evolution, our great capacity is not just that we learn about the world. The thing that really makes us distinctive is that we can imagine other ways that the world could be. That's really where our enormous evolutionary juice comes from. We understand the world, but that also lets us imagine other ways the world could be, and actually make those other worlds come true. That's what innovation, technology and science are all about.
  • Modern academic philosophy in scientistic crisis on 2009-08-17
    • The results of science may turn out
      to hold true against future observations, but no guarantee of their certainty
      can ever be given. In principle, the best science can offer is approximations,
      predictions of the likelihood of an event coming true.
    • We often have to rely on common sense in life, which means
      on the evidence of the senses, usually in so far as this is experienced commonly.
      Learning common sense is a necessary part of life because it ensures that
      we share the perceptions of others and learn to benefit from ordinary people's
      experience.
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  • The Benefits and Hazards of the Philosophy of Ayn Rand on 2009-08-07
    • Media people are no worse than anyone else;
      they merely operate in a more public area.
    • We humans have a need to feel we understand the
      world in which we live. We have a need to make sense
      out of our experience. We have a need for some
      intelligible portrait of who we are as human beings and
      what our lives are or should be about. In short, we
      have a need for a philosophical vision of reality.
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  • The Problem with Software « The Baseline Scenario on 2009-07-15
    • Most software projects fall victim not to bad software, but to the coordination problem – of having dozens of people working together on a single, intangible, unstable product – compounded by the motivation problem.

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