Sublime

After von Neumann, Shannon was the most important figure in the establishment of the system of the world that Google now embodies. I would like to say that he showed the way out. But Shannon himself ended up enmeshed in the same materialist superstition that afflicts the Google Age. “I think man is a machine of a very complex sort,”

Après une visite ultérieure à Prague, Philip Roth observa qu’à l’Ouest « tout marche mais rien ne compte » tandis qu’en Tchécoslovaquie « rien ne marche mais tout compte952 ». L’existentialisme sartrien était précisément une philosophie de ce qui compte : Sartre appelait ses lecteurs à prendre des décisions comme si tout l’avenir de l’humanité

Here the arch-traditionalist Spengler comes into strange alignment with the communist Karl Marx, with his theory of alienation, and the uncategorisable Simone Weil with her reflections on the consequences of rootlessness.

Schelling a commencé par dire que s'il était vrai que les Lumières avaient réussi à différencier le mental et la nature (ou la noosphère et la biosphère), elles avaient également eu tendance à oublier le Fondement transcendantal et unificateur des deux et que, par conséquent, elles tendaient à dissocier mental et nature - le désastre de la

historians of philosophy have carried on as before, repeating familiar stories about the little band of philosophers who have become mainstays of modern textbooks . . . they have continued to ignore all the other people who have tried to understand the world in the light of philosophy and who were, as often as not, transformed by the experience . .

learning but poor at compositionality and the construction of cognitive models; the other, classical AI, incorporates compositionality and the construction of cognitive models, but is mediocre at best at learning.

Heidegger insisted it makes more sense to see objects such as this hammer – and the wider world – in the context of their relevance for our everyday lives. He argued this is not only how we see the world, it is how the world really is. Heidegger contended that, even for philosophers and scientists, such a stance leads to a more accurate appraisal