the limits of science
nowhere.” It is the conviction that in order to describe the world accurately and empirically, we must put aside res cogitans—the subjective, immediate way in which we experience the world in our minds—and limit ourselves to res extensa, the objective, mathematical language of physical facts. Without these distinctions, it’s difficult to imagine
... See moreMeghan O'Gieblyn • God, Human, Animal, Machine_ Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning - Meghan O'Gieblyn
The warning for us in this, whereby we might take advantage of their mistake, is to realize that we are doing the same thing with scientific method. There are certain kinds of personalities who tend to become very rigid in their scientific ideas and thereafter automatically exclude certain possibilities because they do not happen to conform with
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the big lesson being to avoid rigidity in decision making
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― Simone Weil
― Simone Weil
Carissa Potter • How to feel alive again.
As science forms an indivisible whole, one may say that there are no longer, strictly speaking, scientists, but only unskilled hands doing scientific work, cogs in a whole their minds are quite incapable of embracing.
Simone Weil • Oppression and Liberty
Every progress in science in the last decades, from the moment it was absorbed into technology and thus introduced into the factual world where we live our everyday lives, has brought with it a veritable avalanche of fabulous instruments and ever more ingenious machinery. All of this makes it more unlikely every day that man will encounter anything... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Dream of Virtual Reality
I did not used to be a person who asked the universe questions. I used to be a person who lived in a large and light-filled apartment. That person was very certain that what she saw was, for the most part, what she got. Back then, I didn’t believe in mystical design or preordained plans from the cosmos. I didn’t even know what time I was born, nor... See more
Michelle Lyn King • Is that right?
Science will only end once we've licked all the objects in the universe
Adam Mastroianniopen.substack.com
Yet, even without the Deep State conspiracy bait, there’s a sense of fact blurring into fiction, where the rational and technoscientific paradigms disintegrate – a freaky collision of accelerationism and psychedelic renaissance that, with Pluto entering the constellation last year, I’m calling the internet’s Age of Aquarius. It’s the dawn of a new... See more
The Internet Enters Its Age of Aquarius | Spike Art Magazine
Where claiming to see things once got you charged as crazy, fake images have are coming to form our collective folklore.