Year: 2020
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Write Me A Poem
Write me a poem that sounds like a rainbow of raindrops against the stained glass of a cathedral reflecting colours at the speed of light! Do it now, make it short like a troubadour’s song, dancing on his toes on top of a burning fire while the bear’s laughter breaks the chains of slavery and…
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Distinguishing Analytic, Dialectic and Crealectic Thinking in The Context of Philosophical Care
In the context of my philosophical counseling practice at the Philosophical Parlour (Stockholm, Sweden), I have introduced the practical notion of “crealectic intelligence”, a meta-analytic and meta-dialectic understanding of our being in the world. Analytic forms of intelligence were certainly a major step in human evolution. Some eighteen centuries ago, in his account of Aristotle’s…
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Numérisme et Créalisme: la Dialectique du Siècle à Venir
On the 10th anniversary of this publication Download the article in French:
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Creation of the Possible (Bergson)
“The artist in executing his work is creating the possible as well as the real…” H. Bergson, “Le possible et le réel,” in La Pensée et le Mouvant. Essais et conférences, Paris, Félix Alcan, 1934, translated by Mabelle L. Andison, “The possible and the real,” in The creative mind, The Philosophical Library, 1946.
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Creative Meta-Dialectics
Around 2001 I expressed my desire for a book that would be called, in French, Système du Vécu, a System of the Lived Experience. I believe I have the same desire today, expressed under another label: a theory of crealectics. But whose lived experience are we talking about? Mine? If it is a theory, it should refer…
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Histosophy as Method
Luis de Miranda: “Histosophy as Method”, Talk at Uppsala University, Live and via zoom, 5 November 2020. Datum: 5 november, kl. 13.15–15.00 Plats: Engelska parken – Rausingrummet Arrangör: Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria Kontaktperson: Sven Widmalm Seminarium Higher Seminar Luis de Miranda, Uppsala universitet: “Histosophy as Method: How I Used It and How I Plan to Use It Again Now” Underlag: “Big…
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A Brief Critique of the Projected European Vision Regarding Artificial Intelligence (HLEG)
I was invited today to participate in the 1st International Workshop on New Foundations for Human-Centered AI, with some members of the “High Level Expert Group in AI” appointed by the European Commission. There was an interesting (virtual and written) discussion about the European HLEG ethics guidelines for Artificial Intelligence. Here are (a bit out…
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Health and Cogito
“The preservation of health has always been the principal end of my studies.” Descartes to the Duchess of Newcastle (cited in Health, a History, 2019, Oxford Philosophical Concepts, OUP). Therefore there might be a deep connection between health and cogito –think about it.