Learning
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Disagreeable me
“Most people who get to know me find me disagreeable” This line is delivered in the film Se7en, by the older detective (summerset) played by Morgan Freeman. The younger detective (Mills), played by Brad Pitt, makes no effort to disagree, yet, surprisingly, there is no self-pity in the delivery. It is stated merely as a Continue reading
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Consensus of conformity
It would seem that, by first limiting the range of contributors to only those that are willing to stick to a pre-agreed narrative, then measuring the narrow range of their output, one can create the illusion of blanket agreement in any discipline, and quite simply state that measure as a proof of the validity of Continue reading
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Contemptable Verbiage
Contemptable Verbiage is a term my older brother Peter used to use, I have no idea where he got it.. I am pretty sure it’s now just a circus, the news I mean, the mainstream, every-day, vanilla, standard news. The problem with it is its lack of purpose and relevance, who it’s speaking to, who Continue reading
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I’d like to take her seriously but she looks like she doesn’t want me to..
Imagine if you will that you are sat in a pizza restaurant one evening having a meal, you notice that although there are a lot of people busy at the ovens, the place is virtually empty of live souls. What you haven’t noticed is that every few minutes a guy comes in with a turquoise Continue reading
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Go to Old Places
I go to old places, I’m bit of a history nut and luckily so is my fiance. What we notice, what we cannot fail to notice frankly, is that in all the paintings the people look authentically from their time period in history. The men, mostly rich men since somebody painted their picture, are bloated Continue reading
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Edward and the monkeys make you think what you think, and strongly imagine that those thoughts were your own..
What started with a man called Sigmund likely didn’t really start with a man called Sigmund, but it became a tool when used by his nephew Edward (Bernays) in the early part of the 20th Century to help governments influence the voting, and often demonstrating, public. It is now referred to as Communications Strategy (I Continue reading
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Nozick, refuting hedonism
I’m not going to explain what hedonism is, or its varying forks, save to say that it is the position of seeing pleasure/lack of pain as the best goal. In this essay I intend to examine Nozick’s attempt to refute hedonism as a rational position. I will set out with an assumption that hedonism is Continue reading
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Locke on the ‘Person’
Locke’s work is important, for me it is useful though flawed but the project he undertook has been reformulated by other philosophers to be a more complete account. Locke saw PERSON as, importantly, a separable substance to MAN. I will attempt to understand his theory and why it is necessary, look at the accounts of Continue reading
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Functionalism, a good account of pain?
I will be looking at the specific reaction of the mind to the condition of pain from the point of view that the mind is a functional device or machine that processes pain as possibly more than just the predictable end product of stimulus. I should start by stating that although it is pleasant to Continue reading
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Science can be refuted but not verified
I intend to expand upon the questions proposed by Descartes, Hume and Popper. Knowledge requires definition as to what it is and how it is used. We don’t know what we don’t know but we can speculate based upon the limitations of what we do know or can state with a degree of certainty. I Continue reading
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