Posts tagged PeterSjostedtH

’[W]hat stands in the way of solving the problem of consciousness is the impossibility of interpreting or defining it in terms of its causal relations to physical/biological properties.’

– Jaegwon #Kim

(2001/5 – image: Pollock) pic.twitter.com/lh7m9pB2qH

— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) October 27, 2020

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‘The external is an internal state elevated to a mystery.’

- #Novalis pic.twitter.com/3pbQbXTo6I

— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) October 21, 2020

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I’ve got a Leibniz joke but it’d just get a moan ad infinitum. https://t.co/mn78UJFJHQ

— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) July 24, 2020

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‘The Way is a void,
Used but never filled:
An abyss it is,
Like an Ancestor
From which all things come …
It is like a preface to God …
The student learns by daily increment.
The Way is gained by daily loss.’

– Lao-Tzu

(image: Blum) pic.twitter.com/9JYzpLoRBO

— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) November 17, 2019

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‘I see no reason to suppose that the air about us and the heavenly spaces over us may not be peopled by intelligences, or entities, or forms of life, as unintelligible to us as we are to the insects. … [We] are part of an infinite series…’
—#Whitehead

1943—image: Lewandowski pic.twitter.com/TA6IZInI5x

— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) October 26, 2019

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“Can machines think?” Surprised to read that #Turing considered telepathy (for which he claimed the evidence was “overwhelming”) to be the strongest possibility against the view that the (retroactively-named) Turing Test could provide an affirmative answer. pic.twitter.com/XDWUvCSeAJ

— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) July 30, 2019

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Slightly annoying that ‘tristinction’ is not a word (it should be, considering 'distinction’ comes from Ancient Greek δίς [dís, “twice”]). 'Threefold distinction’ is a poor alternative.

— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) July 11, 2019

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‘An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

This advice seems so easy, and is in fact so difficult to follow.’

A. N. #Whitehead

(R&S177) pic.twitter.com/aT3kZTeorN

— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) June 28, 2019

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‘The Zen approach is to enter right into the object itself and see it, as it were, from the inside. To know the flower is to become the flower … .
The flower, however, is unconscious of itself. It is I who awaken it from the unconscious.’

- D. T. #Suzuki pic.twitter.com/5obqm9ocpd

— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) June 19, 2019

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‘There is no place to seek the mind;
It is like the footprints of the birds in the sky.’

– The Zenrin pic.twitter.com/NBf6qnyhld

— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) June 18, 2019

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Very cool

— Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) May 24, 2019

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’[T]he creation of the world is the first unconscious act of speculative thought; and the first task of a self-conscious philosophy is to explain how it has been done.’

- A. N. #Whitehead

(S, T, & R, 101) pic.twitter.com/mezL03A6vg

— Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) March 29, 2019

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’[D]rugs do not impart wisdom…any more than the microscope alone gives knowledge.They provide the raw materials of wisdom&are useful to the extent that[one]can integrate what they reveal into the whole pattern of his behavior&the whole system of his knowledge.’

– Alan #Watts pic.twitter.com/LLGqysONwt

— Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) March 3, 2019

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‘The “electronic” society is a special society contained within the wider “geometric” society …

the geometric society is a special society included in the vaster society of pure extension [etc.].’

– S. E. #Hooper

(1943, 214 – on #Whitehead) pic.twitter.com/5BL24Mp1vX

— Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) March 3, 2019

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What you cooking Žižek? pic.twitter.com/vwQVqdlakE

— Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) March 1, 2019

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’[E]veryone has a religion, whether admitted or not, because it is impossible to be human without having some basic assumptions (or intuitions) about existence and the good life.’

– Alan #Watts

(Autobio.) pic.twitter.com/YcniiUv9KO

— Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) February 1, 2019

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‘How do we know that only one geometry is relevant to the complex happenings of nature?

Perhaps a three-dimensional geometry is relevant to one sort of occurrences; and a fifteen-dimensional geometry is required for another sort.’

– A. N. #Whitehead

(MT, 1938 – image: Korolev) pic.twitter.com/7ecQrvnKS3

— Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) January 6, 2019

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‘Unrestrained craving for explanation makes us seek what is uniform so intensely that we pay no attention to what is different.’

– F. H. #Jacobi

(1785 – image: Klimt) pic.twitter.com/2QICExJMtE

— Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) December 25, 2018

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’[I]mages are spatial entities that may bear either spatial or causal relations, or both, to physical objects.’

– J. R. #Smythies

(2003, 394) pic.twitter.com/cJI32YH00S

— Peter Sjöstedt-H (@PeterSjostedtH) August 26, 2018

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