This remarkable fusion of continental philosophy in the form of a renewal of the speculative ambitions of German Idealism, and analytic philosophy in the form of extended thought-experiments and a philosophy of artificial languages, opens up new perspectives on the meaning of human intelligence, and...
Similarly, the references to a new observable, ‘information’, and to ‘programming’, are based on common sense use of these words, while ignoring their scientific meaning and its actual implications (see my own and co-workers’ writings on this, on my web page). Relating these two ...
In Iran, grandmothers will typically curse the jinn if they lose an article of clothing or misplace an object, meaning that they suspect seemingly random occurrences to be the mischievous work of the jinn. This is even how the great Henri Michaux describes sorcerers in what he calls the Land...
At times, in conversation, always very circumspectly, he would address the relation between depression and the discipline of philosophy, the broadest questions of meaning, life and death, intellectual distance, mind and body, pessimism and nihilism. In these heartfelt, searching conversations I felt...