We're an information economy.... it's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. Fragments that can be retrieved, amplified...
William Gibson, Johnny Mnemonic
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Labels:
complexity,
computers,
contemporary life,
cyberspace,
internet,
millennials,
modernity,
premonition,
sci-fi,
skepticism
Saturday, February 17, 2018
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Natural Teleology
Natural teleology would mean that the universe is rationally governed in more than one way—not only through the universal quantitative laws of physics that underlie efficient causation but also through principles which imply that things happen because they are on a path that leads toward certain outcomes—notably, the existence of living, and ultimately conscious, organisms.
Thomas Nagel, Mind & Cosmos
See also: http://everythingrum.blogspot.com/2018/01/if-there-was-cosmological-design-what.html
See also: http://everythingrum.blogspot.com/2018/01/if-there-was-cosmological-design-what.html
Labels:
complexity,
consciousness,
cosmology,
evolution,
existence,
mind,
Nagel,
phenomenon,
philosophy,
physics,
reality,
reason,
science,
teleology,
universe
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