“Scientists should be much braver [...] I think this ethics argument – should they speak or shouldn’t they – is a lot of nonsense. Scientists cannot promise certainty any more than economists can when they call for changes in taxes or interest rates. Uncertainty is part of the human condition. Caution, in any case, may in reality be recklessness.” – Crispin Tickell
Sunlight reflects off Kraken Mare, one of Titan’s many liquid-methane lakes.
Poetic, robust, humbling. Maybe even useful. I’ve been trying to make decisions ‘within seven breaths’, for example.
“Copenhagen, for me, is a very clear deadline that I think we need to meet, and I am afraid that if we don’t, then the process will begin to slip, and [...] one deadline after the other will not be met, and we sort of become the little orchestra on the Titanic.”
- CØP15 orchestrator Yvo de Boer, December 2008, speaking to George Monbiot
BS: D1. Per causam sui intelligo id cujus essentia involvit existentiam sive id cujus natura non potest concipi nisi existens.
SS: D1. By that which is self-caused I mean that whose essence involves existence; or that whose nature can be conceived only as existing.
:: What does BS understand by conceivability?
GWH: Die Vernunft ist Geist, indem die Gewißheit, alle Realität zu sein, zur Wahrheit erhoben und sie sich ihrer selbst als ihrer Welt und der Welt als ihrer selbst bewußt ist.
HTG: Reason is spirit, since the certainty of being all reality has been raised to truth, and it is self-consciously aware of itself as its own world, and the world as itself.
:: Can something be [self-consciously aware] of something else? Is it not (i) self-conscious, or (ii) conscious of itself, rather than self-conscious of itself? » Continue reading “§6 Der Geist / The Spirit”
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Said Odysseus to his wife: “We have still not reached the end of our trials. One more labor lies in store—boundless, laden with danger, great and long, and I must brave it out from start to finish.”
(Thanks be to Liz Harnmeijer)
