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Category Archives: Philosophy
Brain Simulation is ‘A Priori’ Impossible
Peter Hankins nods to Mysterianism in “Trying to simulate the human brain is a waste of energy“: The philosopher John Searle has been dining out for years on a good line about simulation. People think, he says, that if they … Continue reading
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Johnson: The Refutation of Libertarianism
In the always excellent Counter-Currents, Greg Johnson has a brief post on “The Refutation of Libertarianism“. He starts off with the following, straightforward and self-evident axioms: Libertarianism is the politics of individualism. Individualism is both a metaphysical and a moral … Continue reading
Posted in Political Theory, White Identity
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Benedict Option FAQ
Rod Dreher has assembled a “Benedict Option FAQ” for a very heady, ambitious, and interesting topic he’s been posting a lot about in the past several months, what is, in short, a call for Christians to retreat a bit and … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Death of the West, Ethics
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Heidegger: Alleged Paradigm Shift
In his new book, Making Sense of Heidegger: A Paradigm Shift, Stanford Religious Studies Professor Thomas Sheehan argues that Heidegger scholarship of the last 50 years has been fundamentally misguided in its understanding of Heidegger’s own project: “I am happy … Continue reading
Posted in Existentialism
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On the Value of Not Knowing Everything
James McWilliams has a good article “On the Value of Not Knowing Everything“, centering on the Mysterian position which emanates from Thomas Nagel’s seminal bat argument, an argument I believe is incontestable. Despite a few misplaced snickers (e.g., describing anti-pomo … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Scientism
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The Denial of Death
I’ve long believed fear of death is the driving force behind almost everything we do, particularly Culture-writ-large. And when it comes to culture, the magnitude of that driving force is proportionally related to how sublimated that fear of death is. … Continue reading
Posted in Existentialism, Psychology
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Ex Machina (2015)
Ex Machina (2015), which currently has a 92% on RT, is written and directed by Alex Garland, who is something of a Renaissance Man when it comes to the arts. In 1996, he published his first novel The Beach which … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Philosophy of Mind
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On Being Human in an Age of Distraction
Gracy Olmstead reviews Matthew Crawford’s book The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction: The subtitle to his latest book promises a look at our “age of distraction.” There have been a plethora of … Continue reading
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Behavioural Economics Bummer
In its predictive power and future for marketers in the fields of commerce and politics, the field of behavioural economics is… depressing… Depressing in that a science will likely evolve with an evermore powerful and nuanced ability to predict, for … Continue reading
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Who Are You To Say That?
Here’s a nice animated video touching upon the ruse of relativism.
Posted in Philosophy
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