Month: June 2021
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Derrida on the Creal
Derrida did not have access to the signifier Creal (Créel in French) therefore he could not do better than distinguish two types of Real. Here his real as non-negative inpossible is a formulation of the Creal, while the objective and dicretizable real is what should be called the Real. This Derrida quote is taken from…
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Second book published in Chinese
Chinese translation of my introduction to AI and Robotics
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Bergson on Joy, Creation and the Art of Living
Philosophy stands to gain in finding some absolute in the moving world of phenomena. But we shall gain also in our feeling of greater joy and strength. Greater joy because the reality invented before our eyes will give each one of us, unceasingly, certain of the satisfactions which art at rare intervals procures for the…
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You Are Not Your Diagnosis
Analytic intelligence, while useful for purposes of manipulation and operationality, often ends up mistaking the abstract object for the concrete in a “fallacy of misplaced concreteness” (Whitehead). Out of habit or cognitive bias, we tend to believe that the parts, units, or functions that we distinguish and name are truly there in the real world, like…
CREALECTICS 