Here’s a brief piece of piece-meal thinking… If humans are to live together then there will need to be some way of reducing the conflict that arises when two imperfect beings interact, and then to improve that methodology to the point where it will work when you have a lot more than two beings bumping into each other. In an…
Is this a strange question given my incredibly strong interest in the subject matter, which is at the core of philosophy? i think it is not and will set out below my reasoning. But let’s just start with the answer. We should bother with philosophy because as a species, we are losing our individuality. It is only through taking the…
If i am whole then it i am equal to one (1). If i am the sum of my parts then no singular part is large – because the number of parts is such that any single part is only ever a set of ever smaller subsets. As a biological organisms my component parts are continuously and simultaneously degenerating and being regenerated. My sensory perception of the…
Why do we think? Why? “The biggest fool can ask more questions than the wisest man can answer” Just to share my reductionist mindset with you… i am sitting at the kitchen table with a stained and empty espresso cupette on my left. The sun is beaming one of those incredibly Perth winter days through the French windows, highlighting…
New Years Day, 2007. What else does one do for New Years other than book a lastminute.com flight to Rome for a brief visit? One did, and here are some of the notes from the diary kept by that one. ROMA – A Brief Visit By a Verbose Man While providing a local restauranti with fodder for its tourist-processing plan i managed to…