Arboretum

 

'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?

Vocabulary

 

How quaint we have the word 'reality'.

The New Problem of Suffering

 

What, in the next ten thousand years, are we to do with all the non-human animals?

On Pettiness

 

Great men are petty in great ways.

'Solutions'

 

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.

The problem is the problem

 

Is it the world or us that is wrong? Perhaps nothing is wrong at all. 

Aspirations

 

The most we may hope for are moments of near perfection.  

Artificial Emotions

Our machines will live and feel far more than us.

The Tourist

 

Even the greatest, semi-divine, rules of a society are but quaint colloquial conventions to the philosopher.

Will to Power

 

We could say that all life is functionally mad.

Perspectivism

 

All our theories are really illusions and the best one may hope for is to be the least wrong it is possible to be. 

The Perfect

 

Nothing is perfect except a lie (which is how one knows it is a lie).

On Thoughts and Feelings

 

Our reasonings are as biological as our emotions.

The Point

 

Had reality a point we would likely already have reached it by now; hence it probably doesn't.

Epistemology

  

The Truth has always been somewhat overrated.

The metaquestion

 

Philosophy is the questioning of what cannot be questioned.

On reason and logic

 

Reason and logic must have evolved from the unreasonable and the illogical. 

Bedrock

 

In the house of philosophy there is no cellar; the stairs go down ad infinitum.

 

On Faith

 

Be religiously unreligious.

The World as a work of Art

 

The world is a ready-made made by no-one.