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"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
~ René Descartes, born today, 1596.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
-- Rene Descartes⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ReneDescartes #Doubt #Truth
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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Ich bin ein bisschen stolz, dass ich #ChatGTP dazu "erzogen" habe, dieses #Descartes Zitat so passend zu verballhornen.
In diesem Sinne: Ich denke, also aua.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
-- Rene Descartes⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ReneDescartes #Doubt #Truth
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah
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🔴 🎙️ **Well Hidden: Descartes’ Life and Works**
“_How René Descartes’ understanding of his own intellectual project evolved across his lifetime._”
🔗 https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-life-works.
#Audio #Podcast #History #Philosophy #ReneDescartes #Descartes @philosophy
#Image attribution: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_Ren%C3%A9_Descartes,_RP-P-OB-55.341.jpg.
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🟡 I Think, Therefore I Am, René Descartes, 1596–1650
#Awareness, #CogitoErgoSum, #Existence, #Philosophy, #Quotations, #Quotes, #RenéDescartes, #Science
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In the cloud?
Thomas Metzinger suggests that the global neural correlate of consciousness (the minimal set of neuronal events and mechanisms sufficient for the occurrence of the mental states to which they are related (Wikipedia))
…is like an island emerging from the sea—as noted, it is a large set of neural properties underlying consciousness as a whole, underpinning your experiential model of the world in its totality at any given moment. The global NCC has many different levels of description: Dynamically, we can describe it as a coherent island, made of densely coupled relations of cause and effect, emerging from the waters of a much less coherent flow of neural activity. Or we could adopt a neurocomputational perspective and look at the global NCC as something that results from information-processing in the brain and hence functions as a carrier of information. At this point, it becomes something more abstract, which we might envision as an information cloud hovering above a neurobiological substrate. The “border” of this information cloud is functional, not physical; the cloud is physically realized by widely distributed firing neurons in your head. Just like a real cloud, which is made of tiny water droplets suspended in the air, the neuronal activation pattern underlying the totality of your conscious experience is made of millions of tiny electrical discharges and chemical transitions at the synapses. In strict terms, it has no fixed location in the brain, though it is coherent.
Thomas Metzinger, The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
Now this is, as Metzinger would be the first to admit, highly abstract language to describe the warm, luminous immediacy that is the lived experience of phenomena. The scent of a lover’s hair, the golden light of sunset, damp air on the skin at dawn – an information cloud hovering above a neurobiological substrate? And yet how else could one experience these things?
Oddly enough, for me at least, Metzinger’s technical language comes closer to expressing what might be thought of as one’s soul than any Cartesian plug-in ghost. The beautiful world that is our necessary home is as much the gift of who we are as it is a place “out there”; we are not, and never have been, visitors. Like everything else, we are just what causality does: “the self is but one of the countless manifestations of the Tao. It is an extension of the cosmos.” (David Y F Ho (PDF))
#awareness #consciousness #DavidYFHo #philosophy #RenéDescartes #Tao #ThomasMetzinger #Wikipedia
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Vale lembrar que Ghost in the Machine foi um termo cunhado pelo filósofo Gilbert Ryle, no seu livro The Concept of Mind, em que critica o dualismo cartesiano que considera mente e corpo como duas coisas que ocorrem juntas, porem são de naturezas distintas.
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A Brief History of the Letter 'X,' From Algebra to X-Mas to Elon Musk | History| Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-letter-x-from-algebra-to-x-mas-to-elon-musk-180982647/
#HistoryLetterX
#Algebra
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I bleat, therefore, I ram.
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Je pédale, donc je suis.
I pedal, therefore I am, is the first principle of #RenéDescartes's #philosophy.
#philosophieAchim Reichel - Fahrrad fahr'n (my anthem)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChfA_DHl0k4Songtext
Der eine sattelt die Hühner,
der andere sattelt sein Pferd,
der dritte sattelt sein Motorrad
und ich sattel um.
In Halle an der Saale
tret’ ich in die Pedale,
hab’ Zehn-Gang-Getriebe,
weil ich die Berge so liebe.
Fahrrad fahr’n, Fahrrad fahr’n, Fahrrad fahr’n, ...
Oben auf dem Gipfel,
da ist die Aussicht gut,
da mach ich eine Pause,
und gönn mir eine Jause.
Fahrrad fahr’n, Fahrrad fahr’n, Fahrrad fahr’n, ...
Die Stadt gehört den Autos,
davon gibt es viel zu viel,
mit dem Rad, da komm ich schneller,
viel schneller ans Ziel.
Fahrrad fahr’n, Fahrrad fahr’n, Fahrrad fahr’n, ...
Oh, ich zahl keine Steuern
und auch kein Benzin
und wenn ich richtig in Fahrt bin,
dann hör ich Melodien.
Fahrrad fahr’n, Fahrrad fahr’n, Fahrrad fahr’n, ...
Ich fahr durch grüne Wiesen,
welch ein Fluidum,
hab Schwung in der Pedale,
und hör die Bienen summ'n.
Fahrrad fahr’n, Fahrrad fahr’n, Fahrrad fahr’n, ...
Für’s Fahrrad brauch ich keine Nummer
und auch kein Führerschein,
brauch nur Luft im Reifen,
und der Rest kommt von allein.
Fahrrad fahr’n, Fahrrad fahr’n, Fahrrad fahr’n, ...
#Fahrrad, #bikes, #bike, #fedibikes, #Radtour, #AchimReichel, #Musik, #music, #Lied, #song, #Verkehrswende, @fedibikes_de, @fedibikes -
something brief on Anne Conway and British early modernity in ‘the longue durée’
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/26-mar-23-justin-sledge-episode-on-anne-conway#blog #JustinSledge #LadyAnneConway #AnneConway #RenéDescartes #FrancisMercuryVanHelmont #rationalism #vitalism
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Woran sich unterscheiden lässt, ob man wach ist oder träumt, beschäftigt die Philosophie seit der Antike. Unseren Kolumnisten führt es zu der Frage, was Wirklichkeit ausmacht.
Warkus' Welt: Alles nur ein Traum?
#WarkusWelt #Philosophie #Traum #Wirklichkeit #Realität #RenéDescartes #Antike #Neuzeit #Schlaf #Kultur