Dawkins believes that “We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators” (Dawkins 1976) and Csikszentmihalyi urges us to “achieve control” over our minds, desires and actions. “If you let them be controlled by genes and memes, you are missing the opportunity to be yoursel…

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“la verite surgit de la meprise” ~ Only from this error does the truth come forth” {the truth emerges from the contempt}

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Libet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Libet distinguishes between the action as a physical act and the urge to act as a mental phenomenon. We can control our actions but not our urges, he concludes. ~ Excerpt “The User Illusion”

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Human intellect is discursive and abstract -- as a Consequence (and this is my own personal comment on Roland-Gosselin), aesthetic pleasure too is perfected in the act of judgment that takes into account the individual elements recovered in the ‘reflexio ad phantasmata’ (reflection to the phastasmat…

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Its conceivable that Darwin’s values, ironically, drew a certain strength from his pondering of natural selection. Think of it: zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical and all logically incompatible with one anoth…

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William James, who, more than a century ago, in his book ‘Varieties of Religious Experience’ www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/621/pg621.t xt tried to find a framework that would encompass all the forms of experience, Eastern and Western, that we call religious. James said that, in the broadest sense, re…

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‘Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary’ defines a moment of truth as “a moment of crisis on whose outcome much or everything depends.”

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“Between what a man calls me and when he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw.” ~ William James (AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST)

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“A psychological analysis of the faculty of language shows, that even the smallest proficiency in its might require more brain power than the greatest proficiency in any other direction” ~ Chauncey Wright plato.stanford.edu/entries/wright

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Beware of the Pigeon League’. The warning came from Galileo’s closest friend in the city, the artist Lodovico Cardi (known as Cigoli) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigoli w;ho was currently working on a remarkable fresco on the dome of Santa Maria Maggiore. It depicted the Madonna standing on the moon -- th…

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’Harmony’ was, for Kepler, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler the key to the understanding of ‘life, the universe and everything.’ In 1611, before the invention of the microscope he wrote a paper about snowflakes. Transferring his attention from the vastness of space to the minutiae of frozen wat…

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Still later, Kant tried to fix the argument by introducing language first used by Fichte plato.stanford.edu/entries/johann-fichte The subject constitutes itself as a subject. Kant now argues that we can be aware of being moved only insofar as we move ourselves, and, more importantly, that we are awa…

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. . .(1) The “beautiful is what pleases in the mere estimate formed of it (consequently not by the intervention of any feeling of sense in accordance with a concept of the understanding.) From this it follows immediately that it must please from all interest.” (2) The “sublime is what pleases immed…

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. . . Kant believed that it is in our fortieth year that we finally acquire a character No one who in his way of thinking is conscious of having character can have such character by nature. Rather, it must always be acquired. We may also assume that the foundation of this character and its beginning…

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