Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt
Humanist interested in the consequences of the machine on intellectual history.
Joined Dec 2022
I know someone who is about to get a capstone position, but it's largely based on his willingness to live north of the Arctic Circle.
Honestly one of the key skills of my larger social group is the ability to adapt to cold. People who don't adapt to cold haven't been able to live the lives that my people have been able to live.
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It's important to remember the influence of Schiller on Peirce, not so much for the 3fold structure (though that is there), but more because Peirce must be understood as completing the system of German Idealism.
On a long enough timeline, you will have to do what your worst enemy has told you to do.
"Refuse to elaborate" is the zeitgeist of the 2020s. It's an implicit recognition that all of the technologies of personal expression (social media) have done little to bring people closer to their selves or their communities, but have instead brought greater fragmentation to communities and within the self.
There are few things more tyrannical than the expectation of explanation: Explain why you think that; why you do that; why you are that. And it never ends ... until it fragments!
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Less “this is not the future we wanted.”
More “this is not the future we will accept.”
This means that reality is made out of infinite ephemeral surprises.
The meme-phrasing, "haha X go Y" reveals the banality of desire. Desire is the elemental stuff of contemporary capitalism, alleged to ooze up from the basic substrate of personality. The condition of desire when presented as itself is considered above dispute in contemporary liberal society: "de gustibus non disputandum." But this reveals the indefensibility of it all. And the reality of contemporary marketing reveals the artifice of it all. Desire is manufactured at an industrial scale.
All of this is "translated" by dual activity of the nerve cell to restore the resting potential and release a neurotransmitter from the axon. This is the consequence or significance of the initial combination of vehicle and reference.
Begin with a single nerve cell. A nerve maintains stasis with a negative electrical charge relative to the positive charge outside. This resting potential will determine its stimulation and facilitate the rest of the reaction. This resting potential is the sign-vehicle: it is that affordance by which some reference will interact. That reference will be something like a neurotransmitter. This is a type of stimulus that expresses its character the sign-vehicle at the moment of firing. ...
It's important to note that this is a *conclusion* to be arrived at after deliberating something together rather than a *premise* to be assumed before engaging in deliberations.
According to GH Mead, the final outcome of participating in the dreadful deliberations of democratic life is not to achieve any particular policy, but to arrive at a fuller and more substantiated understanding of **what the hell are those yahoos thinking?**
It's interesting to observe a public space with lots of windows while people are evaluating the likelihood of a dangerous weather event. There's definitely a hush. The energy gets a little quieter and harsher.
Evaluation, social scanning: the paleo-mammalian brain is in control.
The soundtrack: listening to Faust.
The vibe: getting ChatGPT to do something that's going to launch your career to the next level.
Goethe wouldn't be Goethe in the time of the Peasants' Rebellion. Goethe had to be in the Sturm und Drang to be Goethe. But because Goethe was there, then, he could produce Faust.
There are some points in cultural history (Hundred Schools-era China, classical Athens, Elizabethan London, Scottish Enlightenment, Jena Group, etc.) where the social conversations about humans provide easy on-ramps for people to develop metacognition.
By sheer and utter coincidence, these same periods are also those that tend to produce the "canonical" classics of art and culture in their respective cultures.
Embodiment? You think medical embodiment is the refuge of a metaphysical ground of self? Your sense of embodiment is something you got out of a medical dictionary, or worse, the medieval equivalent of a medical dictionary that was translated by an isolated Buddhist monk trying to fix his meditation posture and then mis-translated and spiritualized by a late-colonial German and taken up by a bunch of hippies in the postwar period.
You do not actually feel like a body!
More symbols! More symbols!
Humanist interested in the consequences of the machine on intellectual history.
Joined Dec 2022
