tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29201581733730656622024-03-05T18:47:57.327-08:00More Notes from the Autopsy of GodThe Times website of the week Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger365125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-36572052108250101792022-06-03T02:27:00.000-07:002022-06-03T02:27:04.263-07:00Arboretum<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">'One cannot see the forest for the trees' they say but what if the forest is really only a single tree appearing to us as a group?</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-44352230467449059612022-05-02T01:50:00.002-07:002022-05-02T01:50:43.905-07:00Vocabulary<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">How quaint we have the word 'reality'.</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-55338018449811830972022-04-17T03:10:00.003-07:002022-04-17T03:10:00.169-07:00The New Problem of Suffering<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">What, in the next ten thousand years, are we to do with all the non-human animals?</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-57876460121197916532022-04-10T03:10:00.001-07:002022-04-10T03:10:22.417-07:00On Pettiness<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Great men are petty in great ways.</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-28358057438520068672021-12-23T03:57:00.003-08:002022-05-02T01:51:51.124-07:00'Solutions'<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Just as there are stones we cannot lift without the help of machines so there are philosophical problems whose solution will belong to the machines we build to solve them, not to us; to us the solution will not seem like a solution.</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-31687686137865579912021-12-08T12:42:00.000-08:002021-12-08T12:42:05.221-08:00The problem is the problem<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Is it the world or us that is wrong? Perhaps nothing is wrong at all. </span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-10701796835461842392021-11-18T01:43:00.003-08:002021-11-18T01:44:46.153-08:00Aspirations<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The most we may hope for are moments of near perfection. </span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-47402159062144091842021-11-10T09:01:00.005-08:002021-11-10T09:01:46.256-08:00Artificial Emotions<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Our machines will live and feel far more than us.</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-4171864740595635782021-10-30T08:32:00.000-07:002021-10-30T08:32:00.408-07:00The Tourist<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Even the greatest, semi-divine, rules of a society are but quaint colloquial conventions to the philosopher.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-42425666387576823542021-10-22T03:08:00.000-07:002021-10-22T03:08:00.929-07:00Will to Power<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">We could say that all life is functionally mad.</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-76988838958710692442021-10-09T02:22:00.003-07:002021-10-09T02:22:46.166-07:00Perspectivism<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;">All our theories are really illusions and the best one may hope for is to be the least wrong it is possible to be. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-18268216413628705642021-09-22T09:52:00.000-07:002021-09-22T09:52:02.762-07:00The Perfect<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Nothing is perfect except a lie (which is how one knows it is a lie).</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-56538370639238192932021-09-14T01:29:00.003-07:002021-09-14T01:29:24.658-07:00On Thoughts and Feelings<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Our reasonings are as biological as our emotions.</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-66436759736832521712021-08-31T08:08:00.001-07:002021-08-31T08:08:29.623-07:00The Point<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Had reality a point we would likely already have reached it by now; hence it probably doesn't.</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-38026101578129962792021-08-16T01:35:00.004-07:002021-08-16T01:35:52.018-07:00Epistemology<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The Truth has always been somewhat overrated.</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-11600401094781612102021-08-03T10:15:00.002-07:002021-08-03T10:15:21.859-07:00The metaquestion<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Philosophy is the questioning of what cannot be questioned.</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-61835251975400245292021-07-27T02:25:00.001-07:002021-07-27T02:25:21.790-07:00On reason and logic<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Reason and logic must have evolved from the unreasonable and the illogical. </span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-47760860388949767962021-07-19T01:40:00.001-07:002021-08-03T10:10:44.546-07:00Bedrock<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In the house of philosophy there is no cellar; the stairs go down ad infinitum.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-74045477257543605482021-07-11T02:43:00.001-07:002021-07-11T02:43:00.215-07:00On Faith<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Be religiously unreligious.</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-7154668429826911212021-07-04T02:43:00.000-07:002021-07-04T02:43:09.643-07:00The World as a work of Art<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The world is a ready-made made by no-one. </span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-77621193921321241452021-06-28T11:05:00.000-07:002021-06-28T11:05:13.970-07:00The Aberration<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The idea that we are an aberration is itself an aberration.</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-35420508740969775492021-06-24T02:15:00.007-07:002021-06-24T02:15:42.645-07:00On Truth<p><br /></p><p> <span style="font-size: large;">The more Truth one has the less Truth one has.</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-62789704764704246462021-06-15T02:15:00.000-07:002021-06-15T02:15:12.298-07:00On Art and Artists<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Just as an artist ought never be judged by his work, an artwork ought never be judged by the artist who happened to make it.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-50013659791410364832021-06-07T02:15:00.001-07:002021-07-09T03:30:59.295-07:00Philosophy<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Philosophy: Not having ones cake nor eating it.</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2920158173373065662.post-58943688412936753082021-06-02T08:20:00.000-07:002021-06-02T08:20:01.418-07:00The greatest fiction<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The greatest fiction ever thought up was the idea of the moral universe.</span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0