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Mon, 06 Nov 2023 01:51:15 GMT

Opposed to the Cartesian notion of the self, Ricoeur posits a notion of the self as indirect, which characterises hermeneutics as a philosophy of “detours”...

...according to Ricoeur... A human does not find herself having immediate, direct access to a world, using language as a layer on top of this world to refer to it. Instead, her experience and understanding of the world are mediated through lan- guage and can therefore only be understood by means of a detour through language, involving aspects such as symbols, metaphors and narrative.
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For both Simmel and Ricoeur, therefore, humans are intermediate beings whose access to the world, to others, and to themselves, is in each case mediated.

--- Wessel Reijers, Mark Coeckelbergh. Narrative and Technology Ethics.

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Tue, 07 Dec 2021 05:14:45 GMT

...the insight into the discontinuous series of points on the graph consists in a grasp, not of necessity or impossibility, but simply of possibility.

--- Bernard Lonergan. Insight, a study of human understanding.

This could be a link between a new technique for extracting data, i.e. creating a new graph/space, and discovering new possibilities, both in the old, but more importantly in the new space.

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Tue, 12 Jan 2021 21:06:49 GMT

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Mon, 11 Jan 2021 05:13:38 GMT

PROP. XV.

He who clearly and distinctly
understands himself
and his emotions

loves God,

and so much the more
in proportion
as he more
understands himself
and his emotions.

Proof.—

He who clearly and distinctly understands
himself
and his emotions
feels pleasure (III. liii.),

and this pleasure is
(by the last Prop.)
accompanied by
the idea of God;

therefore (Def. of the Emotions, vi.)
such a one
loves God,

and (for the same reason)
so much the more
in proportion as he more understands himself
and his emotions.

Q.E.D.

--- Spinoza, The Ethics, Part V, Prop XV

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3800/3800-h/3800-h.htm#chap05

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Mon, 28 Dec 2020 05:12:38 GMT

PROP. III. An emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion, as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea thereof.

Proof.—

An emotion, 
          which is a passion, 
                      is a confused idea 

(by the general Def. of the Emotions). 

If, therefore, 
             we form a clear 
                     and distinct idea 
                             of a given emotion, 
that idea 
         will only be distinguished 
                                from the emotion, 
in so far as 
          it is referred 
                       to the mind only, 
                                       by reason 
(II. xxi., and note); 

therefore (III. iii.), 
                   the emotion will cease to be 
                                           a passion. Q.E.D.

Corollary—

An emotion therefore becomes 
more under our control, 
and the mind 
is less passive 
in respect to it, 
in proportion 
as it is more 
known to us.

--- Spinoza, The Ethics, Part V, Prop III.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3800/3800-h/3800-h.htm#chap05

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Искусственный интеллект

Sun, 22 Nov 2020 19:19:42 GMT

Спросил у Алексы, почему нет бумажных полотенец. Она ответила, потому что эпидемия коронавируса (нашла в интернете). Это один из лучших примеров хорошей предсказательной силы без понимания причин, т.е. современная версия Китайской Комнаты профессора Серла.

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Sat, 19 Sep 2020 15:41:52 GMT

[8] Tzu-hsia asked: “What is the meaning of:
‘Her cunning smiles,
Her dimples light,
Her lovely eyes,
So clear and bright,
The ground, not yet
With colours dight’?”

The Master said: “Colouring follows groundwork.”
“Then does courtesy follow after?” said Tzu-hsia.
“Shang,” 6 said the Master, “thou hast hit my meaning! Now I can talk of poetry to thee.”

--- The Sayings of Confucius.

https://www.bartleby.com/44/1/3.html

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