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  • Arthur Koestler and Creativity-Sunday, April 09, 2006

    Repost True creativity often starts where language ends.Arthur Koestler For those who engaged the issue of intuition, can we say that this is very close to what creativity is ,and the quote suplied above, is in essence. Is the mind, having come to a point on the Aristotlean arch, as, having fully understood, that work…

  • A Possible Dialogue between Socrates and Plato

    A Possible Dialogue between Socrates and Plato

    A synoptic discovery synthesized into a dialogue of exchange bringing us to the insights necessary for an understanding of Sovereignty. A dialectic exchange, arriving at what becomes self- evident. A first principle to which a country’s understanding can begin.

  • Functioning Without a President

    Platohagel: Can the United States function without a President? Socrates: Ah, Platohagel, a fascinating question indeed! Let us ponder the nature of governance and the role of leadership in the United States. The President of the United States serves as both the head of state and the head of government, embodying executive power as outlined…

  • Reason Against Unjust Beliefs

    Platohagel: Does Socrates and Platonism advance totalitarianism states? Socrates: Ah, my dear interlocutor, the pursuit of wisdom and virtue is the essence of my philosophy. Totalitarianism, with its emphasis on control and power, goes against the ideals of justice and individual autonomy that I advocate for. The true path lies in the examined life and…

  • A Correlation in Perception

    James Cameron’s AVATAR This post will indeed seem quite odd. But as I told Phil I wanted to explain a principal behind all the language I used here as if it would appear to another if we assume another perspective. James Cameron’s AVATAR Now we know how some of us who go the the extreme…

  • William Thurston

    Xianfeng David Gu and Shing-Tung YauTo a topologist, a rabbit is the same as a sphere. Neither has a hole. Longitude and latitude lines on the rabbit allow mathematicians to map it onto different forms while preserving information. William Thurston of Cornell, the author of a deeper conjecture that includes Poincaré’s and that is now…

  • Mathematical Structure of the Universe

    Although Aristotle in general had a more empirical and experimental attitude than Plato, modern science did not come into its own until Plato’s Pythagorean confidence in the mathematical nature of the world returned with Kepler, Galileo, and Newton. For instance, Aristotle, relying on a theory of opposites that is now only of historical interest, rejected…

  • Factoids and Censorship

    Often taking the time to absorbed the full perspective of the writer is just as much an effort as it is to understand the nature and understanding of research and information development about a topic. Where that writer leaves off. Bradbury on FAHRENHEIT 451 See also at Home with Ray What space has this writer…

  • Theoretical Excellence

    Although Aristotle in general had a more empirical and experimental attitude than Plato, modern science did not come into its own until Plato’s Pythagorean confidence in the mathematical nature of the world returned with Kepler, Galileo, and Newton. For instance, Aristotle, relying on a theory of opposites that is now only of historical interest, rejected…

  • Thomas Young: Deep PLay

    A final aspect of beauty that was often cited by readers might be called “deep play”. This is the sense that we are actively engaged with something outside ourselves that is responding to us – rather than watching a game of our own construction or watching nature from a detached distance. I wanted to continue…

  • Change that Had Consequences

    In the post, Hermetic Ties, I showed how historically information was engraved, crafted, into the woodcuts, for knowledge based on alchemist interests. I further explained the process as I have come to know of it in terms of developing this “inquisitive search into the mystery’s of what life” is about how the questioning mind of…