Posts Tagged ‘information’
The 4 Generations – Pessimist – Part 2 of 7
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Lets get practical. What exactly do these generations look like? How do they operate, and how do they interact with each other?
We’ll start with Socrates… he seems fairly original. Read the rest of this entry »
Discretion is the better part of Twitter
So if you were to ask 793 of your closest Facebook friends and a further 2000 that are called “friends” (that actually are nothing of the kind) what they think of the Captain Morgan tattoo you’re thinking about getting in the fold of your left knee; you are going to get a very different opinion from them than if you actually sat down with each of them privately and asked them.
That’s the nature of the Social Media beast.
You need the opinions of those who will not be prepared to give their opinion in front of all your friends. That is because they already know what I am about to tell you.
So even if they are your “friends”, they’re not likely to tell you on Twitter or Facebook what you actually need to hear.
Are you with me so far?
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The Plurality of Persons
Martin Heidegger said “Philosophizing is to ask the question ‘why are their beings instead of nothing?’”
I do Believe
I was watching Michael Shermer (publisher of Skeptic Magazine) on TED speak about the nature of belief. That humans have evolved to look for patterns; which is why we tend to believe things.
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science sceptic
I bought myself a Citizen Eco-Drive watch. It’s great, I’m really happy with it; it looks good, it’s waterproof; but I bought it because it will never need a battery replacement or a wind-up.
It’s powered very successfully, by the sun or artificial light – that was important because I live in Seattle.
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Why Horton didn’t hear a ‘How’ – 2 of 4
Descartes: “Cognito ergo sum,” – “I think therefore I am,” the great maxim of the rationalists; which has been adequately answered by Kierkegaard’s Existentialism and Husserl’s Phenomenology: “I am, therefore I am“.
Which is disturbingly equal to something Moses wrote about 4000 years ago! Now Existentialism may have answered Rationalism adequately, but it is yet to answer itself adequately.
Google’s thesis of data
Einstein once said, “only daring speculation can lead us further, and not accumulation of facts.” It seems he was wrong, data is leading us further; but where is it leading us to? In a well researched article Wired’s Chris Anderson tells us that the scientific process is drowning, it seems unable to ‘tread data’.
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