φιλοσοφία

1. The explosion of talk about sex in newspapers and magazines — the explosion of think-pieces about sex and sexuality — can only mean one thing: boredom.

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2. Our thinking is extended through a matrix of thinking-tools: hardware like phone and laptop; and software — various apps and programs. We think very little now — we’ve exported most of our thinking to this mesh of hardware and software; this ecosystem brain-extenders. We should start asking who we are then, if we’re not originating our own thoughts, and merely participating in them.

3. Philosophy without poetry is strictly academic — strictly speaking, a waste of time.

4. A model of Mind that does not account for flesh and blood — for the body — is strictly a model of computation — strictly speaking, a waste of time.

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5.

Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,

Thou foster-child of silence and slow time…

For Keats, art (the “Grecian Urn”)is a crystallization of the meditative mind. “Quietness… silence and slow time” flow into the art object; the invisible becomes visible. The mind and the world are in a relationship, interpenetrating; there is…