Picking up the Thinking in the 21st Century thread again… I’m nearing the end of the most philosophical stuff. It all turns on this one… Just a reminder to read this as a proposal — a basis for refinement and elaboration (not to mention citations and evidence), not presuming finality. A few weeks ago I [...]
metaphysics
Effects of Ideas, Stories, and Theories
by Brian on 01-06-2010
Thinking in the 21st Century: Progress Report
by Brian on 12-27-2009
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The premise of this series is to work out a new way of looking at our changing world» Part of the reason we’ve had so much difficulty making sense of the complex events of the past decade is that our ways of thinking — specifically, the metaphors, analogies, and images we resort to — have [...]
Tagged as: bias, epistemology, heuristics, learning, meta factors, metaphors, metaphysics, networks, object bias, philosophy, psychology, relevance, social media, will to relevance
Diving in even further over my head, here’s further elaboration of the philosophy I use. To understand why we do things, we have to appreciate why things happen at all. It’s ridiculously simple: things happen because time exists. I’ve found this principle to be a useful heuristic for grounding uncertainty and making random occurrences continuous [...]
Tagged as: epistemology, metaphysics, object bias, philosophy, pragmatism, process, process philosophy, reification, space, spatiality, temporality, think21st, time
I had a longish essay half-conceived on this and partly written… but instead of that I’ll keep it short and let you fill the rest in for yourself (which I need to do way more often). The gist is this: online sites and links exist for the sake of promoting offline experiences (communities, friendships, profit, [...]
Tagged as: generativity, metaphysics, philosophy, social media, space, substance, time, two aspects, vitality, web
