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		<title>Complication and Difficulty in the Life of the Mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each moment I hope to apply pen to paper, to touch upon one of the currents flowing in my mind, finally to find it acceptable, and possess the unified awareness to divert its flow into ink. I hope it will pool into glyphs of sufficient ability to later remind of their progenitors. But my thoughts, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immortalcuriosity.com/2008/06/16/complication-and-difficulty-in-the-life-of-the-mind/</link>
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		<title>A Distracting Observation of Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Concerning Richard Tarnas&#8217; &#8220;Cosmos and Psyche&#8220;&#8211;
Having not heard of the book before coming across it sitting on a shelf, I perfunctorily read the description on the back cover. The paragraph revealed what might be quite an interesting and informative philosophical and scientific work, as others I had come across. But the phrase &#8220;correspondence between planetary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immortalcuriosity.com/2008/06/16/a-distracting-observation-of-style/</link>
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		<title>Notes on Richard Tarnas&#8217; &#8220;Cosmos and Psyche&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Section 1 &#8211; Transformation of the Cosmos
Tarnas begins with a sweeping and inspiring overview of the widespread impact of the Copernican Revolution. He focuses on the various philosophical and psychological shifts it implied in the minds of those who accepted it, and that must have been in place in the academic world at large for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immortalcuriosity.com/2008/05/26/notes-on-richard-tarnas-cosmos-and-psyche/</link>
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		<title>Notes on Edward Wilson&#8217;s &#8220;Consilience&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge is an inviting, informative work on several topics, primarily attempting to present what Wilson terms the &#8220;consilient world view&#8221;. He reviews a number of human investigations and endeavours, presenting how they variously show evidence for the effectiveness of consilience or have failed to utilize it, to their benefit or detriment, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immortalcuriosity.com/2008/05/26/notes-on-edward-wilsons-consilience/</link>
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		<title>Telos and Human Evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally written in February 2006. Taken from an older blog I do not keep up anymore, I am moving this here to be listed with my other philosophical writings. My thoughts on the topic may currently differ from when it was written, but I find it interesting nonetheless.

That natural biological evolution is progressive and goal-oriented, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immortalcuriosity.com/2008/05/04/telos-and-human-evolution/</link>
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		<title>Humanity and Willed Evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally written in February 2006. Taken from an older blog I do not keep up anymore, I am moving this here to be listed with my other philosophical writings. My thoughts on the topic may currently differ from when it was written, but I find it interesting nonetheless.

New methods of expression and dissemination of information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immortalcuriosity.com/2008/05/04/humanity-and-willed-evolution/</link>
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		<title>The Spatiality of Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally written in January 2006. Taken from an older blog I do not keep up anymore, I am moving this here to be listed with my other philosophical writings. My thoughts on the topic may currently differ from when it was written, but I find it interesting nonetheless.

It is very interesting to consider the quality [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immortalcuriosity.com/2008/05/04/the-spatiality-of-ideas/</link>
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		<title>Notes on &#8220;Zoological Philosophy&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Notes on Zoological Philosophy, by J.B. Lamarck-
Chapter 7-

Concerning the influence      exerted by the environment on the various living bodies exposed to it. It      is in all times and places operative on living bodies.
The state in which we find      any animal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immortalcuriosity.com/2007/07/26/notes-from-zoological-philosophy/</link>
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		<title>Notes on &#8220;The Universe in a Nutshell&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[11 /26/2005
Notes and thoughts from Stephen Hawking&#8217;s The Universe in a Nutshell, chapter 6, Star Trek or Not.
The world&#8217;s population plotted through time is a measure of our technological ability to preserve life. During recorded history, this measure has only increased. Of course, there are certain exceptions: the Black death etc. within the last 200 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immortalcuriosity.com/2007/07/26/notes-from-the-universe-in-a-nutshell/</link>
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		<title>Notes on &#8220;Towards a Universal Characteristic&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Towards a Universal Characteristic, 1677.
&#8220;Number is therefore, so to speak, a fundamental metaphysical form, and arithmetic a sort of statics [from OED: "Originally, the science relating to weight and its mechanical effects, and to the conditions of equilibrium as resulting from the distribution of weight. In modern use, the branch of physical science concerned with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immortalcuriosity.com/2007/07/26/notes-from-towards-a-universal-characteristic/</link>
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