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Kent Pitman<a href="https://ieji.de/@vnikolov" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@vnikolov</a> > Now I am reminded (maybe it's a distant > association) of John Maynard Keynes >(I think): "in the long run we're all dead".Yeah, this kind of obvious truth is troublesome. I have a closely related haiku (original context <a href="https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/113603713366583693" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/113603713366583693</a>):borrowed from Nothing we, and Time itself, pretend we were here at all<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/senryu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#senryu</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ShortPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShortPoem</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SmallPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallPoem</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SmallPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallPoems</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#time</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/existence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#existence</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/cosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cosmology</a>

Groovypositivelygroovylife.com <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#energy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tips</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tricks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tricks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freedom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#justice</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/love" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#love</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hope</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/inspire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inspire</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peace</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leadership</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#truth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/divine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#divine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vision</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/create" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#create</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wisdom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mentalhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mentalhealth</a>

Bhavani Shankar 💭<a class="u-url mention" href="https://universeodon.com/@tomcapuder" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tomcapuder</a> <a class="u-url mention" href="https://fe.disroot.org/users/cbontenbal" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cbontenbal</a> Interesting. I think science definitely has a chance of making up something useful but we need a huge leap of faith to think it arrives at the truth. Science keeps discarding things that were thought to be real like electric, heat fluids, luminiferous ether etc. We can make an inductive argument that it'll continue - the world as described by science will keep changing and therefore it is not real. Multiple (sometimes incompatible and infinite) theories and interpretations exist which give the exact same phenomenon. The one accepted by science is based on luck - the first to make novel predictions. We are stepping into the realm of the unobservable in advanced physics like string theory. Should we discard these pieces or update the definition and methods of science? Success of scientific investigation is based on luck too. For example, billions of years in the future the light from other galaxies will be undetectable. But human records from today will say they observed many galaxies. Which one should the future humans believe? So I don't think it's just "mental masturbation" to open our minds to other (potential) sources of knowledge. That's how we progress and enjoy life. 😄 <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/science" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/philosophy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/philosophyofscience" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophyofscience</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/physics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/metaphysics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a>

Alexander Karl KollerAnd now, the English version of my book "God, who the Hell is that?" is also available on Amazon 🥳 <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5NCBC43?ref_=ast_author_mpb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5NCBC43?ref_=ast_author_mpb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/god" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#god</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/believe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#believe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reality</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/real" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#real</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surreal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surreal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/self" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#self</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#consciousness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#life</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/live" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#live</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/weareone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weareone</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/onelife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onelife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#truth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spirit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spirit</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spirituality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spirituality</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#psychology</a>

Alexander Karl Koller0 = ♾️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SymbolicLogic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SymbolicLogic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheoryOfEverything" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheoryOfEverything</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surreal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#surreal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/real" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#real</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newfrontiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#newfrontiers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/infinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#infinity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/knowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#knowledge</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/think" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#think</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mind</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#universe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/expand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#expand</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#consciousness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reality</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aiartist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aiartist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/existence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#existence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/basics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#basics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/framwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#framwork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/symbolic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#symbolic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RSI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a>

janhoglund“…modern science’s nominalism—its refusal to attribute reality to universals—has limited our ability to make sense of the kinds of wholeness and goal-directedness we now observe in biological systems.” —Matthew Segall, Is There A Metaphysical Revolution Afoot in Natural Science? <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/wholeness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wholeness</a>

janhoglund“Self-organizing living beings are the crack in the Kantian phenomenal/noumenal firewall, opening up an approach to the study of form and purpose as operative in nature itself, not just in the human subject.” —Matthew Segall, Is There A Metaphysical Revolution Afoot in Natural Science? <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/selforganization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#selforganization</a>

janhoglund“…the old mechanistic, substance-based ontology seems increasingly inadequate to account for what’s actually being discovered and needing to be theorized.” —Matthew Segall, Is There A Metaphysical Revolution Afoot in Natural Science? <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a>

Rowan Brad Quni<a href="https://mastodon.world/@paninid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@paninid</a> fast forward to the present and scientists who barely study <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> label <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a> as <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pseudoscience</a> (forgetting what <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhD</a> means), torment <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#logic</a> for the benefit of "elegant" <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#math</a> equations (e.g. antimatter, dark <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/matter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#matter</a>), and design <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/systems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systems</a> that weaponize <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ethics</a> as justification for <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#information</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> (<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> "knows" but refuses to answer how to a hot wire a car or commit murder while claiming no <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/opinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opinion</a>, ignorant that words and actions are different)

Coach Pāṇini ®<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Aristotle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aristotle</a> named five interlinked Noble Sciences which together make up <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a>. - <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Metaphysics</a>: the study of existence, the nature of the universe and all its contents- <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Logic</a>: the ways we may know something, the set of permissible conclusions we may draw based on our perceptions, and some sensible rules of deduction and inference- <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ethics</a>: what we know about man and what we may deduce and infer (through Logic) about acceptable interactions between pairs of individuals1/2

Greg RestallI’m just about to be on the road again, to talk about proof theory, modal logic, a hint of medieval logic, and even a tiny smidgen of metaphysics. On this little European jaunt, the first stop is Prague, then Vienna, and at the end, Amsterdam. I’m looking forward to meeting old friends and making new ones. If you’re in that part of the world, and you’re into that sort of thing, I’d love to see you.<a href="https://consequently.org/presentation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://consequently.org/presentation/</a><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#logic</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a>

UniversityofGroningenLibraryNew in our electronic <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/collection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#collection</a>:➡️ Levels of Explanation 🔗 <a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/59296" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://academic.oup.com/book/59296</a><a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenScience</a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/PhilosophyOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhilosophyOfScience</a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/methodology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#methodology</a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/reductionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reductionism</a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> Celebrating the Centenary of A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUSFrom 2020: a conversation between Lindsay specialist Douglas A. Anderson, Prof Robert A. Davisl, & author Nina Allan, discussing the novel & its influence on fantasy writers – hosted by the Unversity of Glasgow’s Centre for Fantasy & the Fantastic4/4<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6HpKWSLuBM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6HpKWSLuBM</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fantasy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20thCentury</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> “this is a book that counts Clive Barker, Alan Moore, Michael Moorcock, & Jeff Vandermeer among its admirers … Once you read ARCTURUS, you’re always finding chunks of it here & there, like burning fragments of an exploded spaceship smoldering in a field”—Dan Schwartz on David Lindsay’s cult status3/4<a href="https://wearethemutants.com/2018/05/09/one-long-discomfort-the-legacy-and-future-of-david-lindsays-a-voyage-to-arcturus/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://wearethemutants.com/2018/05/09/one-long-discomfort-the-legacy-and-future-of-david-lindsays-a-voyage-to-arcturus/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fantasy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20thCentury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/cultfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cultfiction</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> “The current strength of Scottish weird fiction has its roots in Lindsay’s surreal & stricken work … Lindsay ought to be considered alongside writers like Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson & HP Lovecraft as one of the great proponents of cosmic horror.”2/4<a href="https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/many-worlds-david-lindsay-and-alternative-realities/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/many-worlds-david-lindsay-and-alternative-realities/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fantasy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20thCentury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#horror</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/CosmicHorror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CosmicHorror</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lovecraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lovecraft</a>

Assoc for Scottish Literature“I can’t begin to convey to you the power of Lindsay’s vision; I found it overwhelming when I first read the book, thirty years ago, & I’ve seldom seen its equal outside Blake.” —Philip PullmanDavid Lindsay (1876–1945) was born <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a>, 3 March – author of A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS & other weird worksA 🎂 🧵<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> 1/4<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fantasy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#20thCentury</a>

ThomasReading Victor Lowe "Understanding Whitehead" on "organism" some pieces fall into place. Since we're humans, not machines, thinking about the foundation of epistemology may take von Uexküll's umwelt-innenwelt dialectic as a functional point of view.As lebewesen we can't do anything against the systemic relation, the analogy, between prehension and metaphysics. This is our grounding.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/AlfredNorthWhitehead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlfredNorthWhitehead</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/VictorLowe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VictorLowe</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/vonUexk%C3%BCll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vonUexküll</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/organism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#organism</a>

🫧 🌸 🫧"what even is time?”- the tarot reader saidtime is a construct, yes. it is also the growth of a tomato. it is the season of mystery under the snow.the illusory constructed nature does not negate functional aspects.<a href="https://socialbc.ca/tags/emptiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#emptiness</a> <a href="https://socialbc.ca/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a> <a href="https://socialbc.ca/tags/time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#time</a> <a href="https://socialbc.ca/tags/middleway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#middleway</a>

SelfAwarePatternsWhat justifies logic?Jacob McNulty has <a href="https://iai.tv/articles/logic-is-nothing-without-metaphysic-auid-3064?_auid=2020" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">an article at IAI arguing that the foundations of logic can only be found in metaphysics</a>. (Warning: possible paywall. <a href="https://www.realclearscience.com/2025/01/31/logic_is_nothing_without_metaphysics_1088383.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alternate link</a>.). He describes a problem called “the logocentric predicament,” that any attempt to justify logic with logic ends up being circular, risking an infinite regress. He notes that the most common response to this historically has been complacency, with Aristotle trying to just dismiss anyone questioning the law of noncontradiction. However subsequent developments in alternate forms of logic apparently make this a difficult stance.McNulty ends up going through the views of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel. The discussion gets thick with the terminology of continental philosophy. As a result I struggle to understand exactly what he’s selling. But the overall point is that logic can only be justified with metaphysics, by which he means the “ambitious area of philosophy which strives to know God, the soul, the world.”I actually don’t think this is true, at least not in the sense of requiring pure metaphysics. But it requires doing something logicians may resist, bringing in empirical information. Part of my willingness to do this comes from a comment logician Graham Priest made several years ago in an interview. He was arguing for alternate systems of logic, which he saw as justified because these systems can be seen as basically very basic theories of reality. And reality being complex, can often be viewed and understood through the lens of multiple theories.One view, which McNulty mentions as problematic, is psychologism, the idea that logic is based on how we think. He argues that the view, “elides the distinction between how people ought to think and how people in fact do.” But this assumes that common thinking isn’t logical. It may not be at one level, the level of social interactions and decision making. But even a computer system, an inherently logical system, will produce results that seem illogical if it has bad or incomplete data, or isn’t working properly. Once we take into account bad or incomplete beliefs, along with various physiological impediments, it’s not hard to see why people often seem illogical too.Interestingly enough, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philosophy_of_logic&oldid=1241519653#Metaphysics_of_logic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the philosophy of logic</a>, psychologism is often regarded as an anti-real stance, as opposed to the realism, which sees logic as existing independent of our minds. But the anti-real view of psychologism, I think, suffers from not continuing the chain of reasoning. Thinking, like digestion, at its most basic level isn’t learned. We just do it innately. Why do we think the way we do? Because it works, providing a survival advantage, which of course is why it evolved. Which means that it has a relation to the environment.And the stance of psychologism being anti-real likely predates an example we have today, logic machines, like the one you’re using to read this. People argue about whether the mind is physical, but I’ve encountered few people asserting the operations of my phone or laptop aren’t. David Chalmers in his book Reality+ describes computers as causation machines. But I just described them as logic machines. Which is it? My take is that they’re one and the same, which I think gives us a clue to what logic is.I’ve often referred to computation as distilled causation. Along those lines, I think logic is abstracted causation, or perhaps more fundamentally, abstracted structures and relations that exist in nature. Of course, a platonist might argue that logic, math, and other abstractions are the more primal reality. But abstract objects in contemporary platonism (as opposed to Plato’s original forms metaphysics) are acausal with no temporospatial extent. If they exist, it’s a different type of “existence” than the patterns in our minds and environment, and don’t seem able to have any effects on those patterns. It’s a view that seems very vulnerable to Occam’s razor.So logic is based on how we think, and our thinking evolved to resonate with common and repeatable patterns in nature. Logic, in all its various forms, captures these resonances, allowing us to optimize them, bottle them, and put them in our tools, with increasing effectiveness.Unless of course I’m missing something. Are there problems with my view of logic? Or alternatives that work better? Or is McNulty right that we have to get into the “ambitious area of philosophy which strives to know God, the soul, the world,” to figure this out?<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Argument_terminology_used_in_logic_(en).svg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Featured image credit</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/logic/" target="_blank">#logic</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/metaphysics/" target="_blank">#Metaphysics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/philosophy/" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/tag/platonism/" target="_blank">#Platonism</a>

Project GutenbergThe truth about fictionWhat distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand reality itselfby Hannah H Kim<a href="https://aeon.co/essays/before-you-define-fiction-check-your-metaphysical-assumptions?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=cf628af267-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_01_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-d88b59c7bc-72664972" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://aeon.co/essays/before-you-define-fiction-check-your-metaphysical-assumptions?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=cf628af267-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_01_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-d88b59c7bc-72664972</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a>

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