> atheist literalists, embarrassed by magic, prefer either to wave the problem away with ‘well it must have happened’ and pretend that this happening can’t have been miraculouspic.twitter.com/2nrEPeZkid
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this is more difficult to read than i expectedhttps://expressiveegg.org/portfolio/self-unself/ …
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> Just as there can be nothing within an android that can validate whether it is conscious, so there can be nothing within rational thought that can validate thinking itselfpic.twitter.com/KpVYn0I0Rl
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> The former require a useful representation of the world which they can rationally defend, the latter a useless representation which they can irrationally defend.pic.twitter.com/GOCUcxl89f
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> Or imagine a deaf man who watches people listen to music, smile with pleasure or get up and dance to it. He constructs a theory that music is a kind of electricitypic.twitter.com/cofsXkIKRh
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> Self, therefore, can never discover freedom. It can only discover slaverypic.twitter.com/vkxKrthpxD
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> This is like a man who walks around a room looking for himself, closely inspecting everything, realising that each thing in the room is not him, and then finally concluding that he’s not really therepic.twitter.com/hhDHr68Cot
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> a nightmarish flip-book of isolated moments with no identity threading through them, everything real, all too horrifically real, yet muffled in a soup of incoherent pointlessnesspic.twitter.com/Ix4F23ZoAC
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> The philosopher who puzzles over self-generated divisions is like a man looking at a hundred photos taken over the course of a stranger’s life and wondering how all these ‘different’ people are related. ‘They must be related’, he thinks, ‘look how similar they all are!”pic.twitter.com/4RiqEM1tXi
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> Looking for something non-symbolic on a map is the very essence of madnesspic.twitter.com/CIW96ewboQ
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> This is why so many philosophers are baffled by reality. They take experiences which cannot be completely reduced to thought, think about them, and then find their thoughts perplexing.pic.twitter.com/5x4FtqTmrr
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> Just as management exists in order to solve problems created by management, and teachers exist in order to educate people made stupid by the existence of schools, and technology exists in order to solve problems created by technology...pic.twitter.com/zMTpGgEWoD
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> In order to convince themselves and others that what they are doing is not an absurd waste of time, they close the box, and then describe it with extremely complicated ideas and arguments so that the reader is unable to guess that the box is actually still empty.pic.twitter.com/iZAt3iWfOz
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> When we say of such people that they have ‘lost their minds’, we mean that they have lost everything but their mindspic.twitter.com/38VuCB7nlC
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> It’s also why a philosopher with something meaningful to say usually has more in common with children and animals than with his colleaguespic.twitter.com/K2pCkoKQkH
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> thus, to actually discover what he knows of it, is to ask the most terrifying question for all academic philosophers; how conscious is this man?pic.twitter.com/xm6rPGeb1S
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> A great thinker does not hammer truth to the wall of the mind with the nails of a system, because he knows in doing so the truth will diepic.twitter.com/7yjCnHfetg
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> This is why many students who take philosophy degrees have the distinct feeling that they’ve got on the wrong train. They expect to be dealing with the towering mysteries of human existence. ...... What they find instead is a cross between a librarian and an accountantpic.twitter.com/VCJJTfvGnA
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> People don’t first reason their way into their beliefs; they seek beliefs and attitudes which correspond to their felt inner reality, their way of living and their life-in-the-world, then find reasons to accept and defend those beliefs and attitudespic.twitter.com/Xc0uOunsPj
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> Although he may reason himself to the limit of the known, he cannot cross over. To do so does not require a different kind of knowledge, but a different kind of personpic.twitter.com/njIivnDWVM
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> Ego can hardly be said to experience at all, instantly transporting whatever happens into the modal warehouse of the self, where it is stored, evaluated and used to get a better job, lord it over newcomers, or gas on about what it knows or what has happened to it.pic.twitter.com/Ymmczj1lbf
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> A literal description of love betrays love in the same way that a photograph of a sunset makes it look trivial and hollow > The more facts (e.g. ‘life hacks’) I acquire about living, the better able I am to livepic.twitter.com/XzNLn3x9cf
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> like saying that analysis of the notes that Beethoven wrote on his scores has more to teach us than the actual experience of the music itselfpic.twitter.com/UAAybhw29K
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> In fact because low-quality work relies on signposts, it will be preferred by ego ...... only when the artist starts producing derivative work — cliched versions of the original inspiration — does it become more palatable to ego, and he achieves some successpic.twitter.com/FlUkSCQlvB
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> I turn up the torch, brighter and brighter, expanding my view further and further, but the light is so bright it now kills what it is directed at, petrifying the trees, shrivelling up the plantspic.twitter.com/PWpNQ1IZJL
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