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Think of this whenever someone gleefully announces that AIs are going to replace artists. The insecurity is plain to see.

Not a rhetorical question, by the way, I'm writing a thing. I want to teach people how to do it. So I'd love to know.

For Spinozists, each level up past 100 gives you access to a new previously unknown attribute of God. That's the end game

The cosmic perspective is a POV from which your life appears to be but a small part/expression of the Cosmos (the immensity of Earth, teeming with life, & the infinite outer space beyond...) What would you say is your biggest friction point when it comes to switching to that state of mind? #philsky

Celebration of the life of Helen De Cruz - 19 October 2025 Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

A memorial for my sister Helen De Cruz will take place on 19 October, both online (hosted by Blake Hereth) and in Brussels (Royal Library of Belgium). tally.so/r/3yLRJd

Je fais la même chose. J'écris un roman de fantasy, et il sera terminé dans des décennies ou jamais. Mais j'aime rêver :)

dommage pour les mansplainers, mais je retiens que tu écris un roman de fantasy! très bonne nouvelle ! j'ai hâte de le lire un jour :)

presumably the entire body is involved

"Whereas philosophy is the culture of the mind: this it is which plucks up vices by the roots; prepares the mind for the receiving of seed, commits them to it, or, as I may say, sows them, that, when come to maturity, they may produce a plentiful harvest."

Cicero provides the first recorded use of the word "culture" in a nonagricultural context. He uses it here to refer to the philosophical cultivation of the soul. #philosophy #philsky

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"When his fellow passengers on board a ship were all unnerved by a storm, [Pyrrho] kept calm and confident, pointing to a little pig in the ship that went on eating, and telling them that such was the unperturbed state in which the wise man should keep himself."

"When his fellow passengers on board a ship were all unnerved by a storm, [Pyrrho] kept calm and confident, pointing to a little pig in the ship that went on eating, and telling them that such was the unperturbed state in which the wise man should keep himself."

-Diogenes Laertius

The same way you can wrap your body in blankets, you can wrap your mind in cozy layers of silence. The silence of an idle afternoon. The silence of conversations that can wait. The silence of loud cars driving by: they do not call your name or demand anything, in this way they are silent.

YouTube video by Regina Spektor - Topic Human of the Year

I always get emotional at this part of the song
"And though they do not know it - All mankind are now your brothers"

It's like the Stoics say: human kind is one big family, and it elevates the soul to send them all universal love. We live in one big cosmopolis.

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A popular online service for academics is claiming an irrevocable right to use its subscribers' voice, signature, photograph, likeness, etc., "in any manner"...

I've also deleted my academia-dot-edu account. Find all my papers as free PDFs (and apparently a zoomed in picture of my mug) at www.calebward.xyz

Please spread the word to your colleagues about the academia scam, also those who are not as online as we are.

Today, take a moment to look out of the window. No! Not that window. I meant the window of Spaceship Earth. With this cool website you can see where Earth is right now in its travel around the Sun. Surely if your house journeyed around the world, you'd admire the view:

www.theplanetstoday.com

I am thinking this in relation to the trope of the cosmic perspective ("spaceship earth", the "pale blue dot"). Those things were pushed on us when there was interest in space- and that was good! But, if like me, it was just dormant, in the far background of your childhood, now you get to try again.

Clichés are not necessarily clichés because they were overused. They can be clichés because *you* were not ready to encounter them when you first met them. Their wisdom felt like an externally imposed force because you could not follow their internal logic at the time. But you get a second chance.

Georges Canguilhem il fait des saltos arrière dans sa tombe en lisant ça

A blue heron stands in calm, reflective water beside a rock.

A green heron is standing among rocks and grass.

Two herons in Sioux Falls yesterday. Blue heron at Skunk Creek, green heron at Covell Lake.

picture is an excerpt of "Descartes's Geometry as Spiritual Exercise" by Matthew L. Jones

All of this makes me think of the fact that Descartes recommended practising crafts like knitting as a spiritual exercise, which would teach people to become more methodical. He advised studying quote-unquote "the feminine arts of embroidery" .

If anyone asks just say it's the french phrygian cap plushie from the olympics. No one will be able to tell the difference

What's A-Deduction and B-Deduction?

awesome job :) !

Science fiction is so philosophically interesting. With its use of thought experiments, it asks us to boldly examine core assumptions that few of us have dared to question. In the scene pictured here, Spock has to tell his boss that he needs a day off because he is so HORNY he might literally DIE

The Allegory of the Lotus Pond: unspeakable bliss and beauty along your Jhana journey In July and August 2025, I applied myself to achieve the next milestones on my jhana meditation journey. I made good progress and experi...

A philosophical exercise every month! I went back to Jhana meditation and experienced unspeakable joy, calm, and beauty! I shall try to speak it nonetheless by using the buddhist allegory of the weary traveller who finds a lotus pond. #philsky

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and to be clear, this is not the universal "I", right? Crazy enough to work!

I always have to worry: does this new friend see me as a human being or just as a Dungeon Master?

'Introduction to Critical Phenomenology' with Natalija Cera (UCD School of Philosophy, Ireland)

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#phenomenology