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Location: reason's raggedy edge

Homepage: http://www.myspace.com/tantricksters

Interests: cognitive sciences, arcology, wilderness, music, "women" ... (and not necessarily in that order).

Biography: life long procrastinator (or "thinker" by default). happy childhood. no wife, no kids. cheerful pessimist ...

(current thinking):

i. philosophical skepticism (in media res);
ii. pyrrhonian spinozism (immanence);
iii. materialism (impermanence):

a. energy ... GRATUITY (of being)
-- "methodological naturalism" [change[error[chance]]] (explanatory scale)
b. agony (re: instrumental fallibilism)
-- "nonreductive physicalism" [cosmology[ecology[neurology]]] (error/descriptive-depth)
c. synergy (re: adaptive pragmaticism)
-- "attention" <-- symmetry (promise)
-- "intention" <-- integrity (demand)
-- "reflection" <-- modality (risk)
d. ecstasy ... GRATITUDE (for becoming)


"amor fati"

"omnia, sive natura"

"vita contemplativa et simplex"

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