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Can misrepresentation (or representation) be naturalized?

Posted on May 18th, 2008 by buddhacious

Dennett's Dangerous Idea

Posted on May 16th, 2008 by buddhacious

I am a little more than half way through Daniel Dennett's book about how evolutionary biology provides you with the only meaning your life needs (or at least the only meaning it  can have, regardless... More »

masculine minds make for selfish genes

Posted on May 1st, 2008 by buddhacious

Either altruism is possible, or it isn't, and this goes for both nature and humanity.  I happen to think altruism is possible, and that the human being is just one of the most striking examples... More »

The End of the Word (preliminary remarks)

Posted on Aug 19th, 2007 by buddhacious

To engage in philosophy is attempt to wake up from a dream. I had one once where I dreamt of these men's thoughts: I believe one of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines... More »

Spellbound: Magic Words and Minds Without Self

Posted on Jul 25th, 2007 by buddhacious

Introduction There was a time when physics, still high on the spirit of the Enlightenment, took seriously the idea that its measurements of the fundamental stuff composing the universe could explain just about everything worth... More »

Limits of Language

Posted on Jul 13th, 2007 by buddhacious

The Limits of Language It seems ironic, at least in light of the premise of this paper, that the thoughts of a man such as Socrates could have given birth to the last twenty-four hundred... More »

Am I my words?

Posted on May 6th, 2007 by buddhacious

Learning to speak is learning to act. Verbal communication is reading the lines and putting them into character. That is, taking a text and giving it context: putting it with something else, making a connection... More »

The purpose of words...

Posted on Mar 13th, 2007 by buddhacious

The words, these words, appeared And since then, we hold them in esteem. More dear than the winter night’s breeze-- Than any of the meaning we seem now unable to retrieve. The words, these words,... More »

Learning to read is reading between the lines

Posted on Jan 15th, 2007 by buddhacious

A few weeks shy of 21 and I am beginning to feel as though I actually understand the words that I read. A book for my adolescent self was a mysterious collection of arcane references... More »