Philosophy Wire: Photos, memories, Facebook.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-01-13]: It is official: the more photographs you take the more difficult it is for you to remember something from the past. [1] My fondest memories are in my mind only. And after I die, nowhere. Or everywhere? I don't know... I do know one thing though: They will not be in fucking Facebook! Stay your self. You may lose one-or-two "likes" or one-or-two fake (digital) "friends". But you will win your life...

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Philosophy Wire: Hurt no one. Hurt not your self.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-01-07]: Every time you do something good, you do something good to your self. Every timg you do something bad, toy hurt your self. You are everybody. Everybody is you. [http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2a91mB]

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Philosophy Wire: Be! Don't think!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-12-14]: Cat did better (in random) than economy experts in stock picking. [1] Answering randomly can make you better than a university graduate. [2] How useful is knowledge if random has such a good performance? The increase of knowledge results in its decrease. [3] Stop the analysis! Stop violating One! Stop breaking the world into pieces! Stop breaking the world to pieces! Stop thinking! Live! Sense! Be!

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Philosophy Wire: DNA & "Me"...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-12-08]: If different DNA sequences exist into our body, they what makes me ME? [1] The more we understand our material nature, the more we realize that the immaterial one is the more important…

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Philosophy Wire: Stay away from me...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-09-17]:

All people have a "personal area" around them which they do not want breached by others. Scientists "measured" it starting from our face and ending at about 20-40 centimeters from it. [1] I wonder, what does it take to be a great man? Reducing that area to zero so as to accept others or expand it to infinity so as to consider others as "you"?

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Philosophy Wire: Who am I?

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Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-08-25]: A 61-year old american is found unconscious in a motel. When he wakes up, he remembered nothing of his old life and did not even recognize his name. The worst of all? He spoke swedish, not english! [1] Who we are is what we remember. We cannot remember where we came from, so we do know who we are.

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Philosophy Wire: Remembering. Forgetting. “My” (?) life…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-02-24]: I only remember a fraction of the life I have lived. Does that mean I have not lived it? If things I have forgotten affect me unconsciously, isn’t that also true for any other event which took place in the universe? Everything affect us in a way. Who determines the limits of “my” life?

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Philosophy Wire: Changing constantly and yet, being "You"...

All of our cells seem to be the same from a genetic point of view. Yes? No. A new study claims that the majority of the cells in our body have from small to great differenced in their genes, due to changes in the genome as the cells divide. [source: web news] The question of what is the thing that makes us "us" becomes more and more difficult as nre discoveries are made. With a constantly changing brain (see "brain plasticity" in Google or "brain" tag in Harmonia Philosophica portals), being made more out of bacteria and microbes than "normal" cells (see "Human body is 90% microbes and bacteria. Who is in control?"), which anyway have each a different gene pool... Difficult to see what makes me "me". Or too easy?

TIP: We are not made only out of matter. So something immaterial makes us to be "us"...

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Philosophy Wire: The Octopus-zombie, life and salt…

The dead squid dances. Is electrochemistry all there is, or maybe something else is the…sauce of life?

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-08-03]: A dead octopus (the title of the video is obviously false) starts moving like a live one when a sauce containing salt is poured onto it. Our lives are based on elektrochemical reactions and the octopus seems to actually be alive! (some claim that it is actually alive in this video, but anyway this does not affect the main point - the same phenomenon happens with frog legs – see here) But it is not... Or is it? Can "life" be just electrochemistry? Can what each of us is feeling every day as "I" be a series of ion exchanges? To slightly paraphrase Leibniz's mind experiment, if we "get into" a brain we will not find anywhere its "owner" and the only thing we will see will be cells... And perhaps some ions from the squid we just ate...

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