Sometimes you can have a thought after a long time spent pondering the range of issues and perspectives surrounding whatever was your original problem or issue. Sometimes you can have a thought almost as an independently created thing of its own – with (seemingly) no starting problem or issue – somehow the thought is “just there” whereas a moment ago…
And why bother with philosophy?
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…
Expositions of a superficial mind…
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 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…
The Armchair Anarachist Handbook
i truly am really, really sorry. Not for the things i have done so much as for the things that i have not done. Not for a lack of understanding of issues that surround me so much as a lack of desire to act on any of those issues. and maybe for being content to sit by and watch others…