user- As an adjective, heuristic means "pertaining to or aimed at discovery or steering your attention in a fruitful direction, as opposed to making an evaluatio...As an adjective, heuristic means "pertaining to or aimed at discovery or steering your attention in a fruitful direction, as opposed to making an evaluation or final judgement."
- What is morphological freedom? I would view it as an extension of one’s right to one’s body, not just self-ownership but also the right to modify oneself a...What is morphological freedom? I would view it as an extension of one’s right to one’s body, not just self-ownership but also the right to modify oneself according to one’s desires.
- "...the conception of the Avant Garde is discarded as a general movement forward toward a utopian external and is reoriented to a general movement inward....."...the conception of the Avant Garde is discarded as a general movement forward toward a utopian external and is reoriented to a general movement inward..." from "Avant Garde?" as seen in the Post-Dogmatist Quarterly
- artificial intelligence, anthropics, bioethics, brain, chemistry, cosmology, futurism, nanotech, philosophy, physics, robotics, singularity, transhumanism,...artificial intelligence, anthropics, bioethics, brain, chemistry, cosmology, futurism, nanotech, philosophy, physics, robotics, singularity, transhumanism, warfare, web
- "Do the clouds make rain? Or is it the rain that makes the clouds? What makes it descend so copiously? Who is it that has the leisure to devote himself, wi..."Do the clouds make rain? Or is it the rain that makes the clouds? What makes it descend so copiously? Who is it that has the leisure to devote himself, with such abandoned glee, to making these things happen?"
- We discriminate against people to the degree we fail to distinguish between them.—Irving J. Lee
- Living with multiple claims to Truth, none 'proveable,' we choose our truths by 'what works,' aspiring to a democracy which supports coexistence of 'contra...Living with multiple claims to Truth, none 'proveable,' we choose our truths by 'what works,' aspiring to a democracy which supports coexistence of 'contradictory' truths, without resort to killing each other off, or appealing to a 'higher authority.' [av
- Yrjö Engeström
- moral insight is not, like mathematics, a product of rational reflection. It is instead a matter of imagining a better future -richard rorty
- "My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the onl..."My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law." ~Richard Rorty
- Richard Rorty has died. But we argue on. (Over Rorty).
- Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneerin...Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere d
- Moral progress isn't beingTrue, Good, or Right...Whether our ideas correspond to some fundamental reality isn't key; it's whether they help us carry out pr...Moral progress isn't beingTrue, Good, or Right...Whether our ideas correspond to some fundamental reality isn't key; it's whether they help us carry out practical tasks to create a fairer, more democratic society.
