Yagkoolan yok tha, xuthalla!

Philosophy needs to invent new terms for concepts all the time as common sense idiocy appropriates old ones for dumbed down versions. Obscurantinism is the only escape.

Lem's 'New Cosmogony' (1971), written as a fictional lecture by an astrobiologist, gives us the following idea about true technological maturity: it is not flashy, but acts in perfect camouflage with the natural laws.

Property reifies labor, but personifies capital insofar as it is subkected to a subject as his enhancement.

The mind is a flat hermeneutic circle.

These are Ramon Llull's combinatorial figures from the Ars Magna. Each letter represents a concept, and by turning the wheels, Llull could create different combinations to see how the ideas connected.

AI is reification as a tool.

Part of aging is refining one's taste to the point that it becomes so singular that hardly anything anymore will pass the threshold of being good enough. In this state a man is naturally inclined to create, but this imperative is easily hijacked by nostalgia and bad critique.

You can solve the hard problem of consciousness by simply being conscious. Therefore consciousness is not unexplainable nor fundamental.

1. Imitation 2. Repetition 3. Comprehension 4. Innovation 5. Mastery

Any sufficiently forgotten craft is indistinguishable from magic. On using the hands as a manual computer:

Most problems of societies today are problems of externalities.

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There are no good men, just bad men trying to be good.

vagueation - to negate with vagueness

Finished up "The Modeling of Nature" by Wallace. Part 1 introduces a modernized hylomorphic ontology of naturally occurring form-matter composites that express causal powers. Part 2 defends an epistemic realist philosophy of science as the study of those causal powers via demonstrative regress. The hypothesis of the modern hypothetio-deductive reasoning is reframed as the middle term(s) of a syllogism, with a selection of historical examples from optics, astronomy, biochem, etc. A work of summary moreso than one of analysis. It can feel a bit meandering and superficial at times, but the explicit intention of the author was that only a high school education is required to pick up the book and get a conceptual understanding, so I suppose that can be forgiven. It does cover a lot of foundational ground and serves as a good classical introduction to a philosophy of nature and science, highlighting that since the object of science is nature, the philosophies of each are inseparably linked.

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