Notes from the Wired
This is a website where I write articles on various topics that interest me, carving out a bit of cyberspace for myself.
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I have based this commentary on the original German text as published by Reclam. The translation is my own, created with the assistance of ChatGPT.
Please note that this is purely my personal interpretation of the sermon. I have no formal training in theology or medieval studies, so my reading should be taken with a grain of salt.
Read moreMarch 25, 2025A year ago, a friend of mine had the idea to visit Namibia—often referred to as the “Gems of Africa” because of its diversity of animals and biomes. I’m not entirely sure how he came up with the idea. Maybe it was due to the country’s connection to Germany during its colonial period, or perhaps some algorithmic push from the “machine gods” in his feed. Whatever the reason, he asked our friend group if we were up for joining him. Another friend said yes, but I couldn’t go because it overlapped with some exams I had to take at university. However, I promised him that next semester, I would choose modules that allowed me to have some free time, which would overlap with theirs.
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A Love Poem Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you. And see, you were within and I was in the external world and sought you there, and in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things which you made. You were with me, and I was not with you. The lovely things kept me far from you, though if they did not have their existence in you, they had no existence at all. You called and cried out loud and shattered my deafness. You were radiant and resplendent, you put to flight my blindness. You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you. I tasted you, and I feel but hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is yours.Feb. 15
On the causal completeness of physics Paper Title: On the causal completeness of physics Link to Paper: https://philpapers.org/rec/VICOTC Date: 2006 Paper Type: Philosophy, Physicalism Short Abstract: The overdetermiantion argument is the most commonly used argument in favour of physicalism, it relises o nthe assumption of the causaul lcosure of physics, this paper investiagtes jsutifaction for this assumptions. 1.Introduction: The Overdetermination Argument and the Closure Principle The strongest current argument for physicalism is the exclusion or overdetermination argument, especially since older arguments based on the unification of all sciences have been undermined. Following ideas like those of Jerry Fodor, many philosophers now believe that the special sciences cannot be fully reduced to physics, so there is no clear epistemological reason to think everything is physical. As a result, defenders of physicalism rely on an ontological argument: anything that causally interacts with the physical world must itself be physical. This argument is particularly aimed at the mind, since mental events appear to cause physical effects, but it can be extended to any domain whose properties seem to have physical consequences.Feb. 15
Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem Paper Title: Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem Link to Paper: https://philarchive.org/rec/CHAIAT-11 Date: 2017 Paper Type: Philosophy, Idealism, Panpyschism Short Abstract: In this paper, David Chalmers provides a taxonomy of theories in idealism, introduces a new system to classify them, and investigates their usefulness in addressing the mind–body problem. 0. Introduction There is a famous philosophical saying: One starts as a materialist, then becomes a dualist, then a panpsychist, and ends up as an idealist.
