dreamsturnedtodust:

I would live here.

Oh. Wow.

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glennz:

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datavis:

Anatomy of a Librarian

for @sylvar

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So comes November
Early darkness covers up
The clock sprints away

fractalized:

Photo by  Heartbeatbox (Matthias Heiderich). untitled 

merlin:

“Gyururururururu…”

Hey, are you looking for the Perry the Platypus noise as a ringtone?

Yes, yes you are.

• Perry Noise [m4r]
• Perry Noise [mp3]

Oh! There you are, Perry.

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The Divided Brain.

What you know about the Left and Right sides if the brain is wrong. (According to this, anyway.)

Reality is not flat. Reality is stratified. It exists and operates on many levels, each of which is governed by structures, processes, and tendencies appropriate to its own level… . the operation of phenomena at one level of reality often gives rise to new entities and operations at higher levels. What emerges above is fully dependent upon that from which it emerged below. But the emergent entities exist and function at higher levels than those elements that give rise to their emergence.

From Christian Smith’s, What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up

Reality has a deep dimension often operating below the surface of empirical experience. To think otherwise is to commit what critical realists call the “epistemic fallacy,” namely, to reduce what is to what we can empirically observe. That is a debilitating move.… I follow the critical realist lead in conceptualizing the real primarily, though not exclusively, according to a causal criterion instead of an exclusive perceptual or materialist criterion. Most of the real, in short, possess ordered and structured causal capacities to behave, under certain conditions, according to particular tendencies that exert influences that bring about changes in material or mental phenomena. The real may consist of material things, such as chemicals and hurricanes, or of nonmaterial entities, such as structures of memory or identity or personhood. What matters in establishing their reality, in most cases, is their possessing or being endowed with some properties, mechanisms, forces, characteristics, powers, tendencies, or interactive relations capable of producing causal effects in the world. Entities that do are real; they are the things that constitute the intransitive objects of scientific inquiry. They exist and operate objectively, whether or not we are aware of them or understand or conceptualize them well.

From Christian Smith’s, What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up

… .the case I will develop is resolutely realist ontologically, antireductionistic methodologically, and antifoundationalist epistemologically. It is naturally bent toward opposing naturalism, positivism, and scientistic empiricism. But it is also hostile to strong versions of constructivism, idealism, postmodernism and relativism… . a reality exists independently of our consciousness of it, which science is often well positioned to understand; yet … . human life involves a crucial dimension we must recognize and account for, which all but the most recent generations of intellectuals of our species have called “soul,” “heart,” or “spirit.” Human beings, I will suggest, are free, ensouled creatures of a particular kind, with the kind of nature about which we must get over our mental and emotional difficulties admitting if we hope possibly to understand ourselves. Yet humans are also material, embodied animals, nurtured and sustained in a physical world governed by causal powers and laws and their natural effects that we cannot simply deconstruct away. When it comes to the human, therefore, reductionistic moves toward either the physical or the mental, the material or the ideal, the corporeal or the spiritual are unacceptable and self-defeating. Humans are embodied souls who can only be well understood and explained in light of that complex reality.

He had me at, “resolutely realist ontologically, antireductionistic methodologically, and antifoundationalist epistemologically.”

From Christian Smith’s, What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up

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