https://meltingasphalt.com/a-natural-history-of-beauty/ … (esp. the bit about the flytraps)
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Replying to @utotranslucence
the word "healthy desire" reminds me of a phrase from this really fun guru on SikhNet who says "the flower is horny for the sun!" in this cheeky mischievous way
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Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted David Chapman
@KevinSimler re: "out there or in us?"– I like to riff off of@meaningness's point about rainbowshttps://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/863915605019250688 …Visakan Veerasamy added,
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Replying to @visakanv @Meaningness
Oh what a great passage! A coda I would add is that, once you have the full causal model of a rainbow, it becomes _much less interesting_ to ask how the labels “objective” and “subjective” apply to it.
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Replying to @KevinSimler @visakanv
Yes! And, generalizing, most arguments about whether something is subjective or objective are due to both words being poorly defined, and can be resolved by looking at the concrete specifics of the relationships involved.
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Agree with the above! My only quibble is with the (joking?) phrase in the passage about rainbows being "guaranteed 100% metaphysics free."
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Replying to @StephenPiment @Meaningness and
If you mean "metaphysics" in the sense of "goofy section in the bookstore," then yes, of course. But there is also a rigorous sense of metaphysics that is all about describing exactly these issues.
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Yes; that’s probably a helpful correction! It’s tricky because “metaphysics” is vague. Besides the holistic chakra balancing stuff, there’s a standard STEM dismissal of any uncomfortable conceptual discussion, taking metaphysics = bullshit.
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In fact “philosophy” is used dismissively the same way. And that’s not altogether wrong!
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