Category Archives: Philosophy

My Post on Radio Interview on NZ initiative report and fisheries generally [updated x2]

Posted on August 2, 2017 by

Comment on my own Facebook page Last night I was contacted by NewsTalkZB and asked to comment on the report from the NZ Initiative. I suggested to them that they ask someone from the NZ Sport Fishing Council to comment, … Continue reading →

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Overcoming ego continued

Posted on August 2, 2017 by

ANG – Overcoming Ego – continued Continued discussion after a 4 year gap Hi Mercale Freud’s ideas of a three part system were a great advance on the ideas prevalent in academia at the time, and are woefully short of … Continue reading →

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Automation in the information age

Posted on July 28, 2017 by

Posthuman Network – Automation post Video – The rise of the machines Automation in the Information Age is different. True enough, but not deep enough. The problem isn’t automation, it is how we measure value. The use of markets made … Continue reading →

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FoLogic – Ontology and Epistemology

Posted on July 28, 2017 by

Andrei Mirovan – Ontology and Epistemology [Rarely do I reproduce someone else’s post in full, and this one is deserving of it] ~~ Some BASIC (minimal, working) DEFINITIONS that I would suggest (presenting and refining some largely shared conventions of … Continue reading →

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Facebook – FoLogic – Facts inventions or discoveries

Posted on July 28, 2017 by

Are Facts inventions or discoveries? It seems that there are two extremes to the spectrum of interpretation. At the simplest end is a simple dichotomy – true/false. All of us must start from this most simple of systems, and most … Continue reading →

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Facebook – FoLogic – Are facts inventions or discoveries

Posted on July 28, 2017 by

Facebook Foundations of Logic group Are Facts inventions or discoveries? And science seems to be telling us that all such symbols have fuzzy boundaries beyond which confidence decays into chaos if pushed too hard. So that within constraints one can … Continue reading →

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Ideapod – Freedom – Bird in a cage analogy

Posted on July 2, 2017 by

Ideapod – Bird in a cage anology of Freedom To WANT to be free requires an existing, evolutionary, personal experience of actual freedom, that NO human child or adult enjoys. This doesn’t seem valid. What evolution seems to have deeply … Continue reading →

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