Category: Thinking
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Parmenides, quantum mechanics, first impressions…
Scientists try to work with big data. (1) Parmenides thought of the One with almost no “data”. Now with a vast amount of data we are ready to reach the “Theory of Everything” and to prove that all “change is an illusion” (see quantum mechanics), including time (see “relativity”)… Always trust your FIRST impression! You…
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Drugs as a way to release the mind (?!)
A researcher. A thinker. And yet, a drug user… Every place will hold its secrets from you. You can never see the Amazon jungle, if you keep intact the bubble of linguistic assumptions of the place you started out from. (Terence McKenna discusses if reality is real) Culture and ideology are not your friends. This…
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Seeing? No. Just thinking. Think about it.
Is seeing a planet with your own eyes the same as seeing it via scientific analysis? (1, 2) It is an uncomfortable truth, but we must always remember that we do not actually see. We just… think. And no experience of importance is experienced via (sensory) data. Look at these diagrams again. Their silence is…
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BEFORE studying philosophy…
Before you start reading philosophy, it would be very good to do this: sit down seriously and write down on paper (or. Doc) your views and philosophical positions as you are now! Document what you think before your thought gets influenced by what you read. The original innocent thought that you now have, before you…
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