Daniel Dennett wrote:Yes we have a soul, but it consists of millions of tiny robots.
Here's what all those robots can do when they get together. Sometimes our species simply gets it right.
(Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 1 in d-minor; 2nd movement. Daniel Barenboim, piano. Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Opening concert of the Athens Festival, 2004)
I think that language has a lot to do with interfering in our relationship to direct experience. A simple thing like metaphor will allows you to go to a place and say 'this is like that'. Well, this isn't like that. This is like this.
Daniel Dennett wrote:Yes we have a soul, but it consists of millions of tiny robots.
Here's what all those robots can do when they get together. Sometimes our species simply gets it right.
(Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 1 in d-minor; 2nd movement. Daniel Barenboim, piano. Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Opening concert of the Athens Festival, 2004)
Most misleading thread ever.
(I wanted little robots in the more literal sense)
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
But I was being literal! They are actual little tiny robots! That's what's so amazing!
I think that language has a lot to do with interfering in our relationship to direct experience. A simple thing like metaphor will allows you to go to a place and say 'this is like that'. Well, this isn't like that. This is like this.
I think that language has a lot to do with interfering in our relationship to direct experience. A simple thing like metaphor will allows you to go to a place and say 'this is like that'. Well, this isn't like that. This is like this.
all better now?
