Étienne Bonnot de Condillac [1714-1780] France Sensationism: “Sensations are modifications of our being. To understand them as images of something distinct from us is to treat them as “ideas” rather than simply as “sensations,” and that is an operation that is so far from being automatic that it exceeds the capacities of animals.” Although they lend themselves to being thought. Idea:...
Contents: A post-modern epiphany Reading Scaruffi: Gaining perspective on chapter 4 A Post-Modern Epiphany One thing I’d like to note, real quick, is the analogy of Alice in Wonderland. It is possible to realize that all the rules and cultural institutions (e.g. library, bank, supermarket, school, army) are as sensical and straight-forward as are the Queen of Hearts and the rabbit in a...
I’m noticing a pattern… some sort of correlation between a quantum unit of dates and the flow of time… but to what end? And how does a continuum translate into an array of discrete units? But more pressing and vexing: to what end? Tick tock, tick tock, tick… NEW DAY. Hmmm. Pressing forth into the fourth chapter of Scaruffi’s challenge Prequel; or, In last’s...
Contents: Philosopher Briefs: Christian Wolff Dear Diary and Focus of Journaling “What is this,” asked Mr. Self-Referential. Philosopher Briefs: Christian Wolff – Take 2 (In which I write a little bit about my previous [mis]understanding of Wolff, and lead into a discussion of his relationship with Leibniz) Yesterday I had initiated my intention. Today I hope to overcome these...
This is, QED.
Philosopher Briefs: Christian Wolff
And so I begin another entry in my potentially splendid (although insufficiently sordid) intended series that will be an edifying collection of summarised…
Contents: Dear Diary (#Life) We Interrupt (#McCarthyQuote) What’s New (#Scaruffi) Meta (aka “In yesterday’s iinstalmentof Shai’s rambling linguistics”): Yesterday I finished off writing a little bit (just a tad, really) about my ongoing note taking relating to Scaruffi’s book. I’d also written about one of (many) films I had watched yesterday, namely the...
Things I can write about include updates on my reading of Scaruffi’s, or my television watching, including the latest episode of The Walking Dead, or a couple of movies I’d overdosed myself. The list of movies included at least: In Time, I Am Gabriel, Grabbers, Good Deeds, Fire With Fire (maybe even more! but I think! that that is it!). I plan to just start randomly and without too...
Readings in Scaruffi So I’ve been reading the third chapter of Scaruffi’s book on consciousness, concerning (quote-unquote) machine intelligence. More than the previous chapter, I feel like I’m being presented with a list of relevant facts upon which a narrative is being implied but not explicitly argued. Instead of re-stating a summary of the chapter, I’ll attempt a...
The following is inspired by my notes beginning in chapter 2 of Scaruffi’s book. In the tradition of philosophy, there have been different attitudes and relations to the issue of consciousness. For the most part, consciousness was something incorporated into the architectonic of a particular philosopher; this allows for an impressive array of contexts and perspectives. For instance, there...
A pseudo-essay informed and inspired by Condillac’s philosophy, that aims to describe a monadology of experience as a paradigm underlining autodidacticity and an autodidactic method: I’ve been active and interested in creating what I’ve tongue-in-cheek been referring to as the monadology of experience, which I’ve used to mean, “the independent units from which we...
