Imagine the wilderness ecosystem.
Big predators eat the weak of grazing herbivores. Scavengers chew those bones. Hiding rodents gather seeds until snatched by hawks. Worms blissfully migrate through the mulch; shrubs burst from their excrement.
Consider the ecosystem of which humanity is a part.
Some people build towers. Others farm and sell their produce [...]
Category Archives: Philosophy
Wondrous Nature
February 4, 2012 – 7:48 pm
Notes
January 13, 2012 – 12:24 pm
Dr. Specterman explained to me the progression of consciousness in The Phenomenology of Spirit. The first stage is animal, and so there is no contradiction with the empirical result that children (infants even) have empathy for other beings. Meanwhile, recognition that there is one essence does not mean the same thing as, for [...]
An OPEN LETTER to Maestro R. Stuart Geiger, PhD (student)
October 13, 2011 – 7:39 pm
An OPEN LETTER to Maestro R. Stuart Geiger, PhD (student):
I have recently received joint approval from the UC-Berkeley Committee on the Protection of Human Subjects and the Graduate Division for our Nemesis relationship.
This is a relief. It’s been a restless fortnight since our last Thirsty Thursday encounter, when you scandalized me with your ideological [...]
Jetsam: What I need
July 11, 2011 – 9:36 am
Jetsam is part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is purposefully cast overboard or jettisoned to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore.
I am moving across the country from New York City to Berkeley, California in August. So I need to throw things away.
I [...]
On Narrative Structure
July 15, 2010 – 12:36 am
Narrative is a High Level Data Structure
was the first thing I read this morning. It was a text message that Ethan Jucovy had sent the night before.
“Or…is data a high level narrative structure?” I responded, pleased with myself for having found something to say on the topic at 7:14 am. I was [...]
