The Four Horsemen debate

The Four Horsemen: Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris and Dennett together at last, 17/12/07, George Eaton's Blog

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Latte art

I've been keeping an eye on coffee crema art for a while now.

Blog queen GwenBell has uploaded some beauties



I plan to get my own efforts up and running in the new year. So you'll have to come down to the centre on Saturdays to see how I'm getting on!  :)




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Which Philosopher Are YOU?

I'm proud to be sussed as W.v.O. Quine / Late Wittgenstein

Early Wittgenstein would have been annoying and W.v.O. Quine is pleasing now I'm reading Dennett.

Which philosopher are you? Your Result: W.v.O. Quine / Late Wittgenstein There is no provable absolute truth. The way you see things is dependant on your language. Truths exist only within a language, and change as the language does. --This quiz was made by S. A-Lerer.
Early Wittgenstein / Positivists
Sartre/Camus (late existentialists)
Immanuel Kant
Nietzsche
Aristotle
Plato (strict rationalists)
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VAJRAYOGINI : Tsem Tulku Rinpoche explains (Part 1 of 3)

Tsem Tulku Rinpoche explains VAJRAYOGINI (Part 1 of 3)

base-jumping

this video fills me with so much internal tension. And, later, release, that I just had to post it as I want to watch it again and again.

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A short film about karma

TECHNOVIKING!

Be afraid, be VERY afraid.

Why I am “Integral” « both/and

"Being truly integral means, among other things, developing intimacy with everything that constitutes us. A genuinely integral consciousness lives such intimacy both conceptually and nonconceptually."

Why I am “Integral” « both/and

Girltalk | Open Source Cinema - An Open Source Documentary Film about Copyright

Girltalk | Open Source Cinema - An Open Source Documentary Film about Copyright

MORE MORE MORE!!!

MySpace.com - Girl Talk - Pittsburgh, PA - Pop / Pop / Pop - www.myspace.com/girltalkmusic

MySpace.com - Girl Talk - Pittsburgh, PA - Pop / Pop / Pop - www.myspace.com/girltalkmusic

This guy ROCKS... and I so rarely say that about ANY music. I do like the new Radiohead album but this is just something else.

Thanks to RyanIsHungry - Hacking Everyday Life for the tipoff.

Ideas to die for « both/and

Crosspost from: Ideas to die for « both/and

Dan Dennett on Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of the meme.

Memes. Fit for their own survival. Not yours.

Integral Options Cafe: The Failure of the Loud Atheists

Thank you Integral Options Cafe for not lumping Dan Dennett in with the fundamentalist, or Loud, athiests - a habit I've been very keen to dispell recently. Haidt's essay is a good example of where people are mis-understanding Dennett.

As you say in The Failure of the Loud Atheists the biggest flaw of the atheist fundamentalists "is their failure to distinguish between objective reality and subjective reality". Now Dennett, in both 'Breaking the Spell' and 'Consciousness Explained' is playing a completely different game and to roll him up into the angry atheist crowd is mis-reading him almost completely.

Dennett recognises interiors and exteriors. He recognises evolution and development. He recognises the difference between left and right-hand quadrants (although wouldn't use those terms). And he states clearly that 3rd person methodologies have a large part to play in understanding interiors. He's got at least Zone1 and Zone2 of the 8 Integral Methodological Pluralism zones covered and he spotted the blind spot that phenomenology has to structuralism and 3rd person methods. His hetrophenomenological method addressed the problem back in the 1980s.

This, from his latest TED talk, says it nicely.

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