#CfP for the #conference "#Re-writing Morocco. #Poetics, politics, #philosophy, and history in multiple forms", which will take place in Rome on November 21-22, 2024.
Now that it's been accepted to ACM FAccT'24, I've updated the preprint of my paper on why artists are right that AI art is a kind of theft. I hope this promotes more serious thought about the visions of generative AI developers and the impacts of these technologies.
On the blog today, Paweł Gładziejewski discusses how we should think of changes to people's metaphysical beliefs about the world after having taken psychedelics #philosophy@philosophy
You can tell #Kuhn is thinking of #Wittgenstein, PI here: "to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life." This is from "Scientific Knowledge as Historical Product," 1977, first essay in The Essential Tension and also in The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn.
Violent tribalistic #protests as well as disastrous political ideas are the results of irrationality in our culture.
Key to cultivating a more rational culture is improving the quality of #education.
To that end, on May 18 The #AynRand Institute is officially launching the Conceptual Education Program to further promote rational ideas in primary and secondary education.
"All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves."
We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share. [Maya Angelou, american poet]. Triptych (2024).
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Another sunday afternoon for a good reading time. Still with C.S. Lewis book "An Experiment in Criticism". (EPUB version in Spanish)
I'm not into Poetry but I should learn about this and give a try.
Light is the playground on which the shadows write their stories. (2024).
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"Affect and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism: Pedagogies for the Renewal of Democratic Education, suggests ideas about affective pedagogies for educators to use (along with recognizing the risks involved) to renew democratic education"
Within the dusk, in the invisible of darkness, our primitive fears and core emptiness are revealed. Within the dusk, within the swish of the night, the endless surrounding and the pure fullness of being are enhanced. (2024).
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