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"And not only that, if you take active inference seriously and still wanna deploy a Cartesian skepticism argument, you'll have to grant that the very environment which the active PP-agent exploits is something besides the brain doing its guessing, something Matrix-style." — 14 minutes ago
"And not only that, if you take active inference seriously and still wanna deploy a Cartesian skepticism argument, you'll have to grant that the very environment which the active PP-agent exploits is something besides the brain doing its guessing, something Matrix-style." — 14 minutes ago
“People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
― To Jerusalem and Back
― To Jerusalem and Back
“The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term”
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“Tell me," Wittgenstein's asked a friend, "why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?" His friend replied, "Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round the Earth." Wittgenstein replied, "Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating?”
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