Since my youth, one of the greatest pleasures I know is listening to The Long Note in Gary Moore’s Parisienne Walkways.
(In this video at 2:35.)
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There is a time to be smart. And there is a time to be stupid.
When laying out the blueprint for a new project, it might be smarter to be stupid by choice.
Stupid people have some real advantages over smart people (and more so over people who are aware or even proud of their mental skills). [...]
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“What if…?”
If studying philosophy taught me anything, it is to ask questions beginning with “what if”. (tags: thought_experiment, counterfactual_assumption)
So I ask: What if websites talked to websites–and nobody were there to listen?
“Websites talking to websites” isn’t that absurd an assumption. They talk all the time. View any website that embeds a Google Map and you [...]
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My professor has dedicated a considerable part of his academic work to epistemology and its neighboring disciplines. As you might know, epistemology is the philosophical debate on the subject of knowledge.
While most sciences ask something along the lines of “what do we know about x” and “how can we maximize our knowledge of x”, philosophical [...]
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