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Kyborg 21: SOS5
The Cult of the Self If you ask someone what meditation is, you will likely learn that it’s an ancient practice, maybe even an ancient Eastern practice…
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Mar 6
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Kyborg 20: SOS4
We are used to drawing a sharp line between IS and OUGHT. The world is unjust, but ought not to be. The ideal society can be imagined without any conce…
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Mar 5
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Kyborg 19: SOS 3
Hard and Soft Inquiry There are two poles to intellectual inquiry - I will call them ‘hard’ and ‘soft.’ Hard approaches make precise claims, draw stric…
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Mar 4
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Kyborg 18: SOS 2
Affordances Let’s start with a cognitive framing on how to read Charles Taylor. The heterodox psychologist J.J. Gibson has been an inspiration for many…
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Mar 3
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Kyborg 17: Sources of the Self 1
Many years ago, I read Steven Pinker’s “How the Mind Works.” This is what he had to say about the ‘how’: In Pinker’s view, we are thinking machines tha…
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Mar 2
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Kyborg 16: GCB5
At the end of this whirlwind tour of the Great Chain of Being, let me say that what I discovered was quite different from what I had set out to unearth…
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Feb 27
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Kyborg 15: GCB 4
If you have a minute, I would love to hear a word or two from you about this series of posts on Kyborgs. Is it too esoteric? Is it interesting? As the …
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Feb 26
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Kyborg 14: GCB3
Making Sense of Sense I am taking half a step back to connect what we have been doing with the Great Chain of Being and Attentional Communities with th…
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Feb 25
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Kyborg 13: GCB 2
Form as Cognition Yesterday I introduced the unit idea of Geometricity as one example of a formal intuition (and I briefly mentioned logic as another f…
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Feb 24
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Kyborg 12: GCB 1
The great chain of being and its variants were both the explicit and the tacit metaphysics of what might be called the ‘Christian’ and ‘Islamic’ civili…
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Feb 23
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Kyborg 11: The Human Question 4
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Rajesh Kasturirangan
Feb 20
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Kyborg 10: The Human Question 3
Promethean Man
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Feb 19
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