Philosophy Wire: Can you sense the Cosmos tremble?

Researchers have shown that over the past two thousand years, volcanoes have played a larger role in natural temperature variability than previously thought, and their climatic effects may have contributed to past societal and economic change. [1] Look at the economy. Study history. Look at empires fall. Try to understand how empires rise. Analyze data. Can't you feel the rage? Can you sense the Earth tremble? The earthquake will kill us all. And at that moment we will smile. For we will realize. That it was the same exact earthquake who have given birth to us...

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Philosophy Wire: Until death…

Researchers show that the wives of men with major cardiovascular disease risk factors, namely hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia, are more prone to suffer from the same disorders. [1] We are affected by out close ones. We live and we die together. Not only with our parents, wives, children. But with our Sun. With the Moon and the sky. Along with the fish and the bears and the crickets. Along with the jasmine and the apple. Together with the trees and rivers. Things eternal. Things ephemeral. And in all these years, we never thought of the obvious: Who can perceive both if not their creator? Don’t cry. You can make the Sun rise tomorrow. Unless you die…

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Philosophy Wire: Prisoner’s dilemma… Man’s illusion… God’s tears…

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Prisoner's dilemma game reveals cooperation leads to leadership. [1] But how and why should we cooperate in order to build leadership? Lead to go where? How do you know the destination unless someone has shown you that destination already? God crying. Tiny men smiling. Running fast without knowing where they run into. They will be first. But with nowhere to go to. Tiny men. Trying to lead. Not understanding that those who fall behind will lead at the end…

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Philosophy Wire: Light. Interactions. Abyss. Perception. Cosmic cycles.

Researchers have devised a new way to make light interact with matter. Reducing the wavelength of light could allow it to be absorbed or emitted by a semiconductor, their study suggests. [1] One. Not interacting with anything. Two. Interacting with each other. Many. Producing a chaos of interactions. Now the ocean is raging. Seemingly untamable. Irrational and dark. The abyss of existence. Hiding deep inside the greatest secret of them all. That there is nothing interacting. A small crab walks in the depths of the sea. Eaten by a fish. Killed by a great shark. Caught by a human. Eating next to the fire. The man dies now. The fire will soon go out. The crab will soon go out for a stroll…

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Philosophy Wire: No propellant. No energy. Standing still. On a moving cosmos.

Researchers at ETH Zurich under the direction of ETH Professor Kristina Shea and colleagues at Caltech in Pasadena, California, have developed a new propulsion concept for swimming robots. The robot exploits temperature fluctuations in the water for propulsion without the need for an engine, propellant or power supply. [1] Flowing without energy. And yet, using the energy of something else. Moving without an engine. And yet, having a structure and moving parts. Exploiting fluctuations without needing a propellant. And yet, using temperature as one. We feel we could exist without the cosmos. And yet we are part of it. We feel we could move on our own. And yet, we never made one single step from where we were. It was the cosmos that was moving…

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Philosophy Wire: Not interacting.

Dark matter is still the shyest particle in physics. New observations show that dark matter in galaxy cluster Abell 3827 stubbornly ignores all other kinds of matter - including itself, astronomers reported last year at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool, England. [1]

Studying interactions is the basis of science. We love interactions. We worship them. But the basis of interactions is non-interaction. Neutrinos passing through planets. Electrons interacting with protons. Photons interacting with gravitational fields. (or curved time-space anyway, who cares?) Particles dancing. Only because the cosmos is standing still.

Dark matter interacting with nothing.
Life mainly made of lifeless particles.
Achilleas running but never reaching the turtle.
Existence as Being. Existence as standing still.
A blanket of reality for the phenomena to manifest on.
God watching all particles moving.
Laughing. Right where He is…

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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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