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Instead, I simply want to posit one idea for your consideration: Enchantment is just the measure of the quality of our attention.1
In other words, what if we experience the world as disenchanted because, in part, enchantment is an effect of a certain kind of attention we bring to bear on the world and we are now generally habituated against this... See more
In other words, what if we experience the world as disenchanted because, in part, enchantment is an effect of a certain kind of attention we bring to bear on the world and we are now generally habituated against this... See more
L. M. Sacasas • If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
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What’s unnerving about AI isn’t that it’s not like us — it’s that it is like us. Like AI, there’s no stable self at the center of human consciousness, no ghost in the machine. Though we have the appearance of free will, and the ethical responsibility that comes with it, ultimately we, like ChatGPT, are trained on a huge data set of genetic... See more
Jay Michaelson • Ghosts in the Machine
How to Love the World More: Artist and Poet Rachel Hébert’s Breathtaking Catalogue of Gratitudes
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
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Philosophize This! - Episode #091 ... Nietzsche pt. 2 - The Will to Power
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He's writing it for that small, small percentage of people that are actually going to try the ones that want true fulfillment and happiness out of life And in his eyes one of the worst things we can ever do is to let fear of failure ragdoll us around for the... See more
Philosophize This! - Episode #091 ... Nietzsche pt. 2 - The Will to Power
💭 MOMENT
He's writing it for that small, small percentage of people that are actually going to try the ones that want true fulfillment and happiness out of life And in his eyes one of the worst things we can ever do is to let fear of failure ragdoll us around for the... See more
An Occasion for Unselfing: Iris Murdoch on Imperfection as Integral to Goodness and How the Beauty of Nature and Art Leavens Our Most Unselfish Impulses
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org• But while there is a distinct difference between how nature and art each effect unselfing, Murdoch argues that what separates great art from the bad and the mediocre is precisely this capacity for stripping down the self rather than inflating the ego — a notion evocative of Tolstoy’s insistence that a real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist.