Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts

Saturday, December 6, 2008

I thought you said you were satisfied


Just as those receiving blood transfusions run the viral risk of AIDS, so those receiving language transfusions run the viral risk of the contamination of meaning.

by Jean Baudrillard from Fragments

There's another post on language

Monday, December 1, 2008

The truth about you being my friend


To be a friend to many people, in the way of the perfect friendship, is not possible; just as you cannot be in love with many at once: it is, so to speak, a state of excess which naturally has but one object; and besides, it is not an easy thing for one man to be very much pleased with many people at the same time, not perhaps to find many really good.

by Aristotle from Nicomachean Ethics

Saturday, November 22, 2008

And I don't care if you don't like my design


Marvin Minsky of MIT says that the next generation of computers will be so intelligent that we will "be lucky if they are willing to keep us around as household pets".

by John Searle from Minds, brains and science