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.
You shouldn't believe anything I talk about — I use words entirely recreationally.
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Aug. 18
Ljot Swanhild: the process of disconnecting
My dream existence would be a stone, outside of the realm of time, and just sitting there, and be nothing.
Aug. 04
Ensel und Kretel
I liked it even more than his previous work, but this book is probably not for everyone, particularly because of the author’s frequent interjections, where he tends to rant about various topics. I absolutely love those rants, they feel like love letters to creativity, completely unbound by the story or any particular goal. Instead, they wander through all kinds of subjects. I love them, but be warned: this book is much less story-focused.
Aug. 02
In Defense of Idealism
1. Introduction Recently, as part of a research practicum, I attended a lecture on epistemology. However, the lecture was not given by a member of the philosophy faculty but by a computer science professor who happened to be interested in philosophical ideas. During the lecture, he presented various epistemological positions, including naïve realism, empiricism, rationalism, idealism, positivism, and others.
He was also very opinionated about these theories. In particular, he was a strong supporter of verificationism and realism and highly critical of what we might call the more “subjective” approaches, such as idealism or constructivism. He repeatedly made fun of people in the humanities, where these theories are more common, arguing that they are ridiculous, that dialectics has long since been proven wrong, that the Weltgeist is a nonsensical concept, and so on. The overall message was essentially: we in STEM are the enlightened ones who know how much better realism is.
