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by dsubburam 6y ago
Another way to reframe this is to ask if this is a free action, rather than a good or bad one. Free as in free from animal passions that compel one to act in a pseudo-deterministic way ("I am hungry so I eat", "I am scared
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by dsubburam 6y ago
Enjoyed reading it, and also your writing style in general. Am saving the article in order to refer to when I start developing my new product idea. I have a genuine question, and maybe two further "optional" comments to offer sinc
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by dsubburam 6y ago
> Sometimes I wonder what happens if humans go extinct. There may be a new civilization by ants, spiders, or insect descendants. Well, in that case, we didn't really go extinct. The distinguishing feature of our kind is our rational
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by dsubburam 6y ago
I find concepts like "procastination" problematic, including associated ones in the comments like "resolve", "discipline", and separately, "weak will". Take the case of "resolving" to watch
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Personalism: Human Beings, Animals, and Nature(plato.stanford.edu)
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Leon Fleisher, spellbinding pianist with one hand or two, dies at 92(chicagotribune.com)
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by dsubburam 6y ago
Exactly. There is the case where the person who has given offense sincerely offers an apology, having become aware of their wrong, with an affect of proportionate contrition. The injured party might now deem to forgive them, and restore the
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America Doesn’t Need a New Revolution(wsj.com)
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by dsubburam 6y ago
Aristotle's conception of eudaimonia, happiness consisting in "activity of the rational soul, conducted in accordance with virtue or excellence"[1] helps here. Lack of such activity perhaps leads to ennui. Not entirely in the
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by dsubburam 6y ago
I discuss philosophy, mostly from the enlightenment period on, in conjunction with classical meditation, in my Practical Meditation podcast[1]. There's a series on free will (Kantian conception), on transcendence (leveraging ideas from
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Critical issues in digital contract tracing(hunch.net)
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by dsubburam 7y ago
An approach to "free will" is to notice that it is an useful concept for organizing our experience, and so, why not use it? How it's useful: - when we can say "this ought to happen", and work towards that to happen.
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NSA on the Future of National Cybersecurity(schneier.com)
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by dsubburam 8y ago
I like to evaluate a job across four metrics: 1. livelihood: does it provide enough $$. 2. meaning: the end product/service, do I find it meaningful. 3. people: do I interact with colleagues, customers, etc. whom I find interesting and
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by dsubburam 8y ago
3/3: Impossible, you say? Well, we all do it on a daily basis. In deep sleep. And maybe that's the key to the craving of silence. For we find deep sleep very restful, and we crave it during our wakefulness as well. I am just conte
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by dsubburam 8y ago
2/3: Carrying that analogy further, let's say we did "conquer" the perception of sound down to switching it off. But our visual stimuli is very active. Either we are captivated by a busy scene in front of us, or though w
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by dsubburam 8y ago
1/3: Another way to look at silence is to see it as a mode of experiencing, rather than a lack of sound waves reaching our ears. Can we tune off the perception of the sounds around us? If we can, is that a valid experience of silence?
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by dsubburam 8y ago
Here's a different take, another thought experiment Re: death, from Sigmund Freud, Reflections on War and Death: “We cannot, indeed, imagine our own death; whenever we try to do so we find that we survive ourselves as spectators. The s
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by dsubburam 8y ago
> I assume, that when I die, this perspective goes away as well, I consider death to equal a total loss of consciousness ability to percieve. The perspective goes away, but the ability to perceive is not part of the perspective. An old t
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by dsubburam 9y ago
Interestingly, unlike the boiling point, the melting point is not that dependent on the atmospheric pressure: for a wide range around 100kPa, it stays at 0C [1]. [1] Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_mel
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by dsubburam 9y ago
If you're looking for an analytical approach for "achieving it", I can suggest advaita vedanta. Rooted in Hinduism rather than Buddhism, it's an approach that emphasizes philosophical enquiry, rather than "meditatio
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by dsubburam 10y ago
>So.. I guess start identifying yourself strongly with something. What that something is not very relevant, cast a dice and see what sticks. Nope, that's not what Krishnamurti's pointing to. He's pointing to the problem wi
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Art, Nature, and Artifical Intelligence(clearcomprehension.com)
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The Escape Velocity of Thought(clearcomprehension.com)
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Why Weight(tessell8.com)
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by dsubburam 12y ago
NYCTaxi.info shows on a map around you estimated taxi pickup and dropoff activity this hour, to guide your search for a taxi.
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340M taxi GPS co-ordinates = where to find a taxi in NYC(nyctaxi.info)
3 points by dsubburam 12y ago|1 comments