Science for the Public
The Problem of Teleology
History of Science
Happy Accidents
Asemics
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Funding for Science, Historically
Asia
Europe
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Sunday, March 2, 2025
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Friday, February 28, 2025
Asemics as the Value of Sacrifice and of Sentiment / EZE, 2025
Asemics as the Value of Sacrifice and of Sentiment
1) The first principle of a rationalist theory of value currently in play follows Ayn Rand and Objectivist philosophy, and it is fundamental to creating asemics: Deny sacrifice, especially, self-sacrifice, as meaningful. Note that meaning here plays to a context of rationality. The self-sacrifice, this irrational act, becomes the asemic.
2) Enact a business model to interpret human behavior as rational or not. For example, enact a business model to manage the legal system. Everything thereby tends to become negotiable whether it is or not. The not becomes the asemic. Rule of law passes to the bid. Justice passes to the aggressor.
3) Develop a categorical imperative that divides the world into winners and losers. Losers are those people who have sacrificed themselves for a claim of a good of some sort. Servants are losers who work for the common good. Winners are those people who serve their self-interest, i.e., their own ends. The losers are the asemic, and the winners have meaning, at least of the photo opportunity sort.
4) In contradistinction to Ayn Rand, who was atheist, re-make religion, especially Christianity, as a means to a different end. For example, re-make Christianity as a Prosperity Gospel as the end desired of this religion is something other than self-sacrifice. Such a re-make, of course, also destroys the religion.
5) Consider loss and the like as something akin to an insurance claim where insurance has no value for sentiment, which thereby becomes asemic, and the pay-out for the claim is replacement value, asemic value excluded. But what potential does this asemic value then acquire? politically, socially, ... otherwise?
6) Preserve the asemic in emojis, but look to the icon of the negotiation table as that which remains of shared meaning among communities otherwise a-communal.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025
An Asemics of Steven Pinker / EZE, 2025
Language as an Experience of Sense and of Affect
- Imagine Language as an Experience of Language
- Imagine Language on the Way to Meaning ~ Imagine Language on the Way to a Question of Language
- As [__________] Called into Question, imagine Asemics as a Question of Affect (or Lack Thereof) in Relation to a Sense of [*]
Pinker
Other than Pinker
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Monday, February 24, 2025
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Asemic Hermeneutics / EZE, 2025
Toward Defining Hermeneutics
Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning
Ontology
Circle
Relations
Asemics
Assemblage
A re-situation of meaning
Often, devoid of context
Ahistorical disjunction, for instance
Value here is not value there
Value is not necessarily emergent
Circle of Meaning
Disconnect
Conjecture
De-reference
Meaning almost anything
Meaning near to nothing
Method
Inconsistent
Unstable
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Sunday, February 16, 2025
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Fake Conflict Asemics? / EZE, 2025
A Fake Conflict for Galileo?
Science and Religion for the Catholic Church
Beyond Catholicism?
The Geocentric Milton in Paradise Lost
Of Two Cultures?
American Protestantism
A Sociology for a Fake Conflict?
Sunday, February 9, 2025
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