Tag: teleology

• Does light, seeking light, the light of light beguile?

  Is the sense of control of one’s life, of one’s surroundings, of oneself, merely an addendum tacked on to the accumulating years that follow maturity? A garb one wraps around oneself to adapt more successfully to the role assigned -a costume meant only for the play? Or is it really the emperor’s clothes, borrowed and […]

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  December 8, 2021

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  Aeon.co, agency, Daniel Dennett, identity, intelligence, Kahlil Gibran, Michael Levin, persona, personalities, taxonomic levels, teleology, Theory of Mind, Tufts University

• On crossing a creek on a log

  For some reason, every once in a while I find I am asking myself abstruse questions. I don’t know why that is, nor what I hope to discover, even if I find an answer. One of the more recent additions to my growing list of queries is whether or not things always have to be […]

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  November 10, 2021

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  existence, flow of a creek, forest bathing, homo proposito, purpose, Sartre, teleology

• Is Whispering Nothing?

  Sometimes I randomly accede to the frivolous demands of boredom, but more frequently I am goaded, and approach not of my own volition, but like Don Quixote, hoping to right some wrong. At those times I am, I like to think, teleology’s servant. I assume that it is the purposes they end up championing, rather […]

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  March 14, 2018

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  art, Banksy, BBC Culture, cow masks, dissonance, Don Quixote, Guerrilla Girls, India, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque, Lascaux, masks, misogyny, sexism, Sujatro Ghosh, teleology, the Venus of Laussel, Thomas Hobbes