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Posted on January 21, 2020
by Alex V. Weir
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All the things I’ve ever said about people’s dumbass faux-humility reagarding deffering to experts proven right by this Canadian badass (is such an oxymoron pausible?): Give me your hard earned money for linking to other people’s work.
Posted on January 4, 2020
by Alex V. Weir
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It’s the 20’s again! Meaning it’s no longer hipstery to wear fanciful hats. Where’s my flatcap? The Pythagoreans thought consuming beans an evil. I think this idea of sin and many ideas of sin in general, as well as the whole drive to mysticism…
Category: Alex Weir, Current Events, Humor, Philosophy, Politics, Social Commentary, The Fractal Journal, Uncategorized, VlogTags: 2020, Empedocles, New Year, Soleimani, The Pythagoreans
Posted on January 3, 2020
by Alex V. Weir
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“Though there are many varieties of the view discussed. Utilitarianism is generally held to be the view that the morally right action is the action that produces the most good. “ – The History of Utilitarianism | The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Held. Something…
Posted on January 1, 2020
by Alex V. Weir
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Ethics is the philosophy of morals. It is a discipline that everyone should master. A discipline whose mastery matters now more than ever. It is so vastly important that the world depends upon it. If you just asked yourself, “well Whaddaya mean by world?”…
Posted on December 31, 2019
by Alex V. Weir
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Isn’t it interesting or perhaps more fittingly alarming that we have precious few markers of passage? A letter is such a finite thing. Perhaps no more finite than a tweet but certainly more tangibly finite. Because the leaf, the bit of tree, it will…
Category: Alex Weir, Current Events, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Commentary, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Cognition, Essays, Ideas, Memory, Mortality, Musings, Time
Posted on December 25, 2019
by Alex V. Weir
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I’m a simple man with a simple lager and proabably should tackle less complicated things. But the more I drink the less I fear looking like an idiot. So….here goes… https://www.pnas.org/content/116/10/3948 “Modularity refers to the idea that mental phenomena arise from the operation of…
Category: Alex Weir, Humor, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Commentary, The Fractal Journal, Uncategorized, VlogTags: Cognition, Damasio, Fodor, Homunculus, Modularity, Neuroscience, Parallel Distributed Processing, Philosophy and Science, PNAS, Science
Posted on December 19, 2019
by Alex V. Weir
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The most useful thing that you can do to improve your odds in any situation is one that I learned from Alan Watts. The thing is a realization. That realization is that all those factors working against you are like the ground that pushes…
Category: Philosophy
Experts Should Keep Their Dayjobs
Posted on January 21, 2020 by Alex V. Weir
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All the things I’ve ever said about people’s dumbass faux-humility reagarding deffering to experts proven right by this Canadian badass (is such an oxymoron pausible?): Give me your hard earned money for linking to other people’s work.
Category: Alex Weir, Humor, Philosophy, Social Commentary, Uncategorized, VlogTags: Experts, Joy Reid, MSNBC, Reposts, Viva Frei
The 20’s, The Many Evils of Beans, and Soleimani
Posted on January 4, 2020 by Alex V. Weir
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It’s the 20’s again! Meaning it’s no longer hipstery to wear fanciful hats. Where’s my flatcap? The Pythagoreans thought consuming beans an evil. I think this idea of sin and many ideas of sin in general, as well as the whole drive to mysticism…
Category: Alex Weir, Current Events, Humor, Philosophy, Politics, Social Commentary, The Fractal Journal, Uncategorized, VlogTags: 2020, Empedocles, New Year, Soleimani, The Pythagoreans
Held – An Essay
Posted on January 3, 2020 by Alex V. Weir
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“Though there are many varieties of the view discussed. Utilitarianism is generally held to be the view that the morally right action is the action that produces the most good. “ – The History of Utilitarianism | The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Held. Something…
Category: Alex Weir, Philosophy, The Fractal Journal, UncategorizedTags: Consciousness, Ideas, Metaphysics, Musings
Philosophical Doodles – Musings on the Virtue Signal
Posted on January 1, 2020 by Alex V. Weir
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Ethics is the philosophy of morals. It is a discipline that everyone should master. A discipline whose mastery matters now more than ever. It is so vastly important that the world depends upon it. If you just asked yourself, “well Whaddaya mean by world?”…
Category: Alex Weir, Current Events, Humor, Philosophy, Psychology, The Fractal Journal, Uncategorized
Plastic Rose – The Changing Nature of Memory
Posted on December 31, 2019 by Alex V. Weir
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Isn’t it interesting or perhaps more fittingly alarming that we have precious few markers of passage? A letter is such a finite thing. Perhaps no more finite than a tweet but certainly more tangibly finite. Because the leaf, the bit of tree, it will…
Category: Alex Weir, Current Events, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Commentary, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Cognition, Essays, Ideas, Memory, Mortality, Musings, Time
There is no Homunculus (Vlog)
Posted on December 25, 2019 by Alex V. Weir
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I’m a simple man with a simple lager and proabably should tackle less complicated things. But the more I drink the less I fear looking like an idiot. So….here goes… https://www.pnas.org/content/116/10/3948 “Modularity refers to the idea that mental phenomena arise from the operation of…
Category: Alex Weir, Humor, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Commentary, The Fractal Journal, Uncategorized, VlogTags: Cognition, Damasio, Fodor, Homunculus, Modularity, Neuroscience, Parallel Distributed Processing, Philosophy and Science, PNAS, Science
The Most Valuable Lesson I Learned
Posted on December 19, 2019 by Alex V. Weir
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The most useful thing that you can do to improve your odds in any situation is one that I learned from Alan Watts. The thing is a realization. That realization is that all those factors working against you are like the ground that pushes…
Category: Alex Weir, Philosophy, Psychology, The Fractal Journal, UncategorizedTags: Alan Watts, Attitude, Lessons, Lifestyle, Outlook, Wisdom
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