“Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.”― Alfred North Whitehead The more one researches what is meant by the term consciousness, the less it seems that there is any consensus of meaning. Most discussions I have come across seem to rather assume its meaning. Language, as …
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Love and Betrayal
For we must be clear that to live or love only where one can trust, where there is security and containment, where one cannot be hurt or let down, where what is pledged in words is forever binding, means really to be out of harm’s way and so to be out of real life. And …
The Unseen I
"The unseen eye remind me of a midnight dream You know it remind me of somebody I have never seen" Sonny Boy Williamson What is meant when we say, "I?" What we know of self and other may only be an immediate perception; a glance, a choice of words or clothing, a smell, or intuitions …
Life Against Death – Part II
A consideration of the aim and purpose of artificial intelligence (AI), provides a fitting introduction to this followup post on Norman O. Brown's book, Life Against Death. AI seeks to build a model of human intelligence for the purpose of: 1) The thrill and power of creating, fathering and possessing a better than human machine, a …
Theoria 