Remember: ease of representation. It’s always more than what you see, bigger than what you know. That said, people in this era did do it. Individuals make history, but it’s also a collective thing, a...
Reality is not a matter of our senses. It can’t be visualized.
Possibly this formulation itself is the deep diagnostic of all human cognition—the tell, as they say, meaning the thing that tells, the giveaway. In the infinite black space of ignorance, it is as if...
Only a few people in this world were lucky enough to run into their true partners—it took outrageous luck for it to happen, then the sense to recognize it, and the courage to act.
One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable.
Now as Daly said, man-made capital and natural capital are not substitutable. This is obvious, but since most economists say they are substitutable, it has to be insisted on. Put simply, you can't sub...
Not so. You have been doing that quite frequently now. Rest easy. Later the whole of quantum mechanics will be placed in the context of the ten-dimensional manifold of manifolds, and there reconciled...
No, we’re the two old Muppets on the balcony, cracking lame jokes. Lame-ass jokes, says Mutt. I like that. Me too.
No one knows anything. But I know less than that, because I thought I knew something, but it was wrong. So I know negatively. I unknow.
Maybe this was the way it had always happened, with no fate ever involved; you simply fell in with the people around you, and no matter what else happened in history or the great world, for the indivi...
Life itself is a moment like this, the soul beat down and held to knowledge: you keep on trudging upward, the goal shifts in and out of sight, always further away than you expected, and the work is ha...
It's the love of right lures men to wrong.
Is this narcissism? Solipsism? Idiocy (from the Greek word idios, for self)? Would Turing acknowledge it as a proof of human behavior? Well, perhaps. They drove Turing to suicide too.
Is anger always just fear flung outward at the world? Can anger ever be a fuel for right action? Can anger make good?
In the infinite black space of ignorance, it is as if stands as the basic operation of cognition, the mark perhaps of consciousness itself. Human
If it was 200 Kelvin outside why not say so, rather than talk about witches’ tits and the like,
However, recall that every human lives under pressure. Every human feels various kinds of stress. Then things happen. Badim
How you think about what you're doing makes a huge difference
He was not interested in what they were doing, not any of it— it was both ugly and abstract, a continuous manipulation of people devoid of any of the tangible rewards that so much work had. That’s pol...
Guerilla climatology. What do you call that, climatage? Attack meteorology?