“Purpose” is a construct. Useful, but restricting. Love this guy.
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Does the Universe Have a Purpose? feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson
November 29, 2012 in Philosophy, Video
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Trippy, organic, turn up the sound
September 26, 2012 in Philosophy, Video
The Flow looks at the supervening layers of reality that we can observe, from quarks to nucleons to atoms and beyond. The deeper we go into the foundations of reality the more it loses its form, eventually becoming a pure mathematical conception. Layer upon layer the flow builds new codes that create new codes, each version computing a new, more complex state based on the previous one.
via mrkism.com/flow
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Map of influencers
July 17, 2012 in Philosophy, Pics
Inspired by an earlier project mapping philsophers, Griff’s Graphs maps every influencer in history using Wikipedia’s database.
…the node size represents the number of connections. In short, I used a database version of Wikipedia to extract all people with known influences and made this map. The bigger the node, the bigger influence that person had on the rest of the network. Nietzsche, Kant, Hegel, Hemingway, Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, Kafka, and Lovecraft all, as one would expect, appear as the largest nodes. Around these nodes, cluster other personalities who are affiliated (depends on distance). Highlighting communities by colour reveals sub-networks within the total structure. You’ll notice common themes amongst similarly coloured authors.
Caveats noted, namely, this is data pulled from a database predominantly maintained by English-speaking Westerners.
