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Reality, evolution and the world Terminology without bounds thingology recapitulating phylogeny Reality and the world If the world is a thing we have made, then all things are in the world. we are human because we have meetings things are meetings not object reality is a late discovery Reasons to be real what the late discovery means Reason is of…

Original posted in May 2023 on substack.com. The Go-Between (1971 film) Lexigraphically, in traditional English habit, when one worries about the meaning of words one takes a descriptive rather than prescriptive attitude, that one ought not should words. Thus large and important English dictionaries hoard examples of the use of a word or term. It’s a point of pride for…

I'm comparing two frames ① the world or worlding and ② suffering in relation to artificial intelligence. I should note that I suspect that general intelligence does not exist in humans, so creating an artificial version of this would mean creating it for the first time. Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized Digital suffering: why it's a problem…

This starts with reading J. N. Nielsen's various posts on various platforms. I've been reading them mostly via substack. The readings have been leaking through and require acknowlegement. This particular post is in regard to the word world and it relation to time as mentioned in J. N. Nielsen's Al-Ghazali’s Spiritual Crisis (Philosophical Side Quests: Philosophers of the Islamic Golden…

These Worlds of Worlds posts wander through some uses of the word world. Each use can be a world of its own. But just as the world is home for all our homes, it is also the home for all worlds, even if these worlds-of-their-own, these ‘epistemic enclaves’ as J.N. Nielsen calls them, can see and or seek no others…

In At home in the world I put down how I got to by thinking about ‘home’ and the relationship to/with 'world'. And in writing that decided to separate out the thoughts about home/world and it relationship, in my head at least, with country and country/city, and empire. I cover part of that at Worldbuilding 101. But here are the…