May 2013
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“Against positivism, which halts at phenomena—“There are only...”
– Nietzsche, The Will To Power
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“There exists neither “spirit,” nor reason, nor thinking, nor...”
– Nietzsche, The Will To Power
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“I do not believe that an occurrence in which my mental life takes no part can...”
– Sigmund Freud, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Principle 3 of Evolutionary Psychology
neuroscientia:
Consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg; most of what goes on in your mind is hidden from you. As a result, your conscious experience can mislead you into thinking that our circuitry is simpler that it really is. Most problems that you experience as easy to solve are very difficult to solve — they require very complicated neural circuitry:
“So it is with your conscious...
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When I meditate on awareness, I can see the world and things as awareness, they just exist because I’m aware of them and retain them in memory. So for something to exist, you must be there to witness it. Therefore, things only exist in awareness of them.
The same thing happens when you compare awareness with experience. If there was no experience, then there would be no self or world,...
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“Now, this unconscious which was a philosophical object since Shopenhauer and was...”
– Michel Foucault, Interview about the birth of psychology and its relation to philosophy (1965)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqP2nMuh_wg
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“Science has probably never demanded a more sweeping change in a traditional way...”
– B.F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity
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“Language is a guide to ‘social reality’. Though language is not ordinarily...”
– Edward Sapir
examined-life:
One cannot possess absolute certainty in any matter—there is only reasonable certainty—or reasonable doubt. Where reason is absent, certainty (or the lack thereof) is also absent: one is left only with convictions.
But reason itself is impartial and does not answer to our personal convictions—rather it excludes the ego and its demands from the equation. At its most extreme,...
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“The present argument is this: mental life and the world in which it is lived are...”
– B. F. Skinner
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Cognitive Relativism
Richard Rorty’s relativism:
The traditional view–call it Platonist, absolutist, objectivist or realist–is that when we do something like abolish slavery we move closer to an independent ideal and we bring our way of thinking closer to the One Right Way, the way dictated by reason or by our essential human nature. Rorty thinks this sort of thinking has been valuable in the past; but in more...
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“In this treacherous world
nothing is either truth or lie;
everything depends...”
– Ramon de Campoamor, Humoradas
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“Success has always been the greatest liar—and the “work” itself, the deed, is a...”
– Friedrich Nietzshe, Nietzsche Contra Wagner
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“Your conscious is so small, it’s the broom closet in the mansion of the brain.”
– David Eagleman
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“Brains are like parliaments. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who...”
– David Eagleman
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“When we suppress our fearful thoughts, they continue to fester there in the...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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“I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things...”
– B. F. Skinner
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“He asked why people are sad. ‘That’s simple,’ says the old man. ‘They are the...”
– Paulo Coelho
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“We simply have no organ for knowing, for ‘truth’: we ‘know’ (or believe or...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
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When you’re with people, you are alone inside (your head). When you’re alone, your with people inside. Extroversion is like mental introversion, and introversion then is like mental extroversion. Your with people always, were are social animals to the core.
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“Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep...”
– E.O. Wilson, On Human Nature
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“Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among...”
– E.O. Wilson, On Human Nature
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“The selection pressures of hunter-gatherer existence have persisted for over 99...”
– E.O. Wilson, On Human Nature
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“A schema is a configuration within the brain, either inborn or learned, against...”
– E.O. Wilson, On Human Nature
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“Because the brain can be guided by rational calculation only in a limited...”
– E.O. Wilson, On Human Nature
“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich...”
– E. O. Wilson (via inthenoosphere)
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“The choice between competing theories is arbitrary, since there is no such thing...”
– Karl Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies, Vol. II (London, 1963), p. 369
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“Nietzsche is explicitly relativistic about both moral values and truth, preferring to evaluate claims according to what sort of will to power the claims express rather than according to their objective truth-value.”
http://www.iep.utm.edu/cog-rel/
Nietzsche didn’t believe in “truth”, just on interpretations which are dependent on a perceiver. He saw that...
“It is a difficult thing for man to admit to himself that the insect or the bird...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (via ludimagister)
“What is necessary will arrange itself.”
– Karl Marx, For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing (via ludimagister)
“Never be a disciple or yes-person of any thinker, no matter how brilliant —no...”
– Steven Pinker (via substantia-nigra)
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“What is wrong with its seeking the pleasant and shirking the unpleasant? Between...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj (via ashramof1)
“The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school...”
– Freeman Dyson (via inthenoosphere)
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“It is often no small sign of humanity not to wish to judge another and refrain...”
– Daybreak, §528 (edited).
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The harder your grip on your knowledge (which is based on experience and interpretation) the greater your ignorance toward other perspectives.
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Human action derives from the desire to increase all that one loves and values, and to decrease the exact contrary.
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“At this point, I can no longer avoid setting out, in an initial, provisional...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
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When something is no longer desired or feared it vanishes completely from consciousness as if it never existed.
“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Watch the mind and see how it makes a drama out of the world.
“And if we forgive life for not being what we told it to be, or expected, or...”
– John Tarrant (via jeffpartridge)
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“Close beside my knowledge lieth my black ignorance.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
“Appearance is not essence, perception is not reality, and the cover is not the...”
– David R. Hawkins 