Philosophy Wire: Sensing yourself!

Our brains are capable of detecting the location of touch even when it's not directly on the body, new research shows. An intriguing new study indicates that we can sense how an object we're holding comes into contact with something else - almost as if it were an extension of ourselves. [1] We sense the cosmos by touching. And that something that we touch touches something else. Which in turn is beside something else. At the end you touch the cosmos. And at the end of everything you touch, the Ouroboros comes back to the beginning. At the end, you feel the only thing you can actually feel… Your self!

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Philosophy Wire: Epigenetic memories. Experiencing “outside” yourself. Reversing the questions.

Researchers have now discovered that environmental genetic changes can be passed down for a whopping 14 generations in an animal – the largest span ever observed in a creature, in this case being a dynasty of C. elegans nematodes (roundworms). [1] What is the difference between the “environment” and us? What are the boundaries between the “self” and the “others”? Seemingly stupid questions always show the road to the solution of great philosophical problems. And these questions have all been solved by Harmonia Philosophica. What we need to see is right in front of our eyes: We are blind to the obvious role of the environment only because we have defined it as something different than us in the first place. How can anything you experience be “outside” you? What is impressive here is not the fact that epigenetic changes pass over to future generations. What is really impressive is that a change from the environment may NOT be passed over to future generations. Reverse the question and you will have the same question but without the dogmas from which you started in the first place. And you will clearly see that what you ask are things which you (think you) know...

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Philosophy Wire: Environment. Human right. In a void world. (and only in this case)

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-08-08]: Dutch court ordered state to reduce emissions by 25% within five years to protect its citizens from climate change in world’s first climate liability suit brought under human rights and tort law. [1] We consider the world soulless. And in such a world a “good environment” is a “right”. A right of soulless people against other soulless objects. A legal construct which hides in an elegant way our voidness. We are the souls of the universe. And yet we ask for “rights” in relation to it’s soulless part…

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Philosophy Wire: I can change the climate!

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Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-07-12]: Obama talks about taking action to stop climate change. [1] Great declarations which are based on equally great egoism. We, the cockroached of the planet, believe we can change the climate. It is not the volcanoes, it is not the ocean plankton, it is not the cycles of Earth's climate. It is US! The all mighty powerful US! And after millions of years, when we will have finally destroyed our selves (yes, THAT we can do!) the planet's climate will go on its cycles like nothing has ever happened...

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Philosophy Wire: City, lost innocence, blackbirds...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-06-15]: According to a new study comparing urban birds to their country cousins, birds from the city "started their activity earlier and had faster but less robust circadian oscillation of locomotor activity than forest conspecifics". [1]

Innocence is gone.

And only a cold thing like science can remind us of that.
If it really knew what that meant, she would never helped us remember...

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Philosophy Wire: Lamo - The sheep dog.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-04-26]:

A sheep raised with dogs.
It is now a dog.
Not "like" a dog.
It plays with other dogs, wears a collar, fetches sticks and even tries to bark... [1]
It IS a dog...
Mind prevails over genes...

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Philosophy Wire: Geomechanics, chemtrails, SKYGUARDS, equilibrium...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-04-17]: European Parliament voted against large scale geo-engineering. [1, 2 (paragraph 90), 3, 4, 5] A conference from SKYGUARDS regarding chemtrails, aerial spraying and HAARP [6] completes the picture of a more conscious and alert EU regarding geoengineering intervention as a whole. Little gods, put your plans on hold. EU will not hold for ever. We are destined to destroy our selves... It is the only way for Nature to reach equilibrium...

 

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