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Method, Cassirer, Selye...Epistemology/ontology... Aristotle/Kant

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  A comment on Talk: Hyeonseo Lee: My escape from North Korea

  Mar 24 2013: Why, with these hot button subjects which suggest possible war, do we not hear a broad discussion, a dialectical one with all sides getting at the history and credibility of participants? Remember the babies thrown out of incubators by Iraqi troops? Lie. Half of American history is a lie, even the name is tendentious. Generally we'll accept that there are two sides to an argument. Why on these matters of supreme moment do we so very rarely hear only one? TED?

• A comment on Talk: Allan Savory: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change

  Mar 10 2013: Thankyou!

• A comment on Talk: Tracy Chevalier: Finding the story inside the painting

  Nov 17 2012: There is the "objective" or what there to be perceived by all the members of one's society. More "objective" the more agreed upon: if ants agree that something is hot, along with plants which wilt... and all other creatures, rocks ,etc etc (even people whom we may"just"ly anthropomorphize).
  There is imagination where we may juxtapose reasonably.
  And, fantasy where we may be free in our associations.
  Of course these are verbal forms for logical constructs and are open to quibbles.

• A reply on Talk: Julie Burstein: 4 lessons in creativity

  Nov 17 2012: I think it was stress investigator (he coined the mod useage of the term) Hans Selye who put Prediction and control as prime elements of consciousness and stress the outcome of their loss. Thus, it is less stressful to expect loss, pain etc, than to fail at predicting happiness too often. ermmm:Throws a kink at a greater part of the uncritical human "potentials" mvmt. Try some George Carlin if as an antidote.

• A comment on Talk: Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course

  Oct 5 2012: There are many reasons our schools and universities are false to knowledge and understanding. If you don't know about the literature on this point, look into it, google etc. 'Education' is often mere recruitment... remember brave Columbus? Ancient virtue ?

• A comment on Talk: Jer Thorp: Make data more human

  Mar 28 2012: Watch out for bias introduced by such formulazations ala powerpoint bias.
  
  Spatial imagination is primary to much 'modern' science but there is at least one other fundamental 'ground'-ing system... discussed by Caairer in "Thge Philosophy of Symbolic Forms:", Kenneth Burke, and their collegues.
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  A reply on Talk: Neil Burgess: How your brain tells you where you are

  Feb 10 2012: "Everything's triangles to this Pythagorus guy"; paraphrase from Red Dwarf (Steve Moffat).
  
  ..."Yeh but What is it?"; cat
  "It's magic" Lister
  "Well why didn't you say so in the first place" cat
  
  Red Dwarf on the theory of explanation.
  
  Now how many forms does contiguity can you make out?
  
  Anyone on memory and narratives?

• A comment on Talk: Julian Baggini: Is there a real you?

  Jan 27 2012: If we are accustomed to positivist 'explanations' we may become conditioned to dismiss what doesn't fit that mold. There is an objective and explained set of experience but a subjective one too. There is a level of experience which cannot be 'scientifically' proven; ultimately arguments about the 'if-ness' of god must probably fail on this even if we can dismiss animal motives from a high god concept (personsonally I'm with Philo of Alexandria in regarding Logos or Plan/Rules/Grammar as the only fitting god concept) .

• A comment on Talk: Scott Rickard: The beautiful math behind the ugliest music

  Jan 22 2012: Pattern is in the code and the data set no? Any sequence will have pattern when seen in suitable perspectives an loss of one kind of pattern highlights others. The only qualm I have in dismissing this epistemology is all the mention of mathematicians: surely they would be alert for the above flaw... but they aren't... I suspect my suspicions are correct though and the presentation not very deeply grounded in deeper aspects and so one should be wary of seeing it as evidence for many classes of conceptualization. I see many repetitions in the musical piece.
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  A reply on Talk: Tyler Cowen: Be suspicious of stories

  Jan 21 2012: There was this really nice guy... God actually.... but he was killed in a most painful and brutal way... crucifiction.
  
  Great moral.... "don't be good"..."don't believe in God" :)