<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">On <b>Sun, 12/4/11, Darren Greer <i><darren.greer3@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div id="yiv2018688033"> "I came across this:"<div><br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">"The posthuman is a being that relies on context rather than </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativism" title="Relativism" style="color:rgb(6, 69, 173);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration:none;background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">relativity</a><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255,
255);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">, on situated </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivity_%28philosophy%29" title="Objectivity (philosophy)" style="color:rgb(6, 69, 173);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration:none;background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">objectivity</a><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> rather than universal objectivity, and on the creation of meaning through 'play' between </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_recognition" title="Pattern recognition" style="color:rgb(6, 69, 173);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration:none;background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">constructions of informational pattern</a><span
style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> and reductions to the randomness of </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-off_keying" title="On-off keying" style="color:rgb(6, 69, 173);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration:none;background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">on-off switches</a><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">, which are the foundation of </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital" title="Digital" style="color:rgb(6, 69, 173);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration:none;background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">digital</a><span style="color:rgb(34, 34,
34);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system" title="Binary numeral system" style="color:rgb(6, 69, 173);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration:none;background-image:none;font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">binary</a><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> systems" (Wikipedia entry on posthumanism)</span></div>
<div><font class="yiv2018688033Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="sans-serif"><span class="yiv2018688033Apple-style-span" style="line-height:19px;"><br></span></font></div><div>"I think I may have some idea what they mean" <br></div></div></blockquote>Then you're a better man than I am. This was obviously written by a professional philosopher and I love philosophy, but very little philosophy comes from philosophers, it comes from scientists and mathematicians. Nearly everything philosophers say can be put into one of four categories.<br><br>1) False<br>2) True but obvious, a truism disguised in opaque language. <br>3) True and deep but discovered first and explained better by someone who didn't write "philosopher" in the box labeled "occupation" on his tax form.<br>4) So bad its not even wrong. <br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div id="yiv2018688033"><div>"This is why I never
took philosophy in college."<br></div></div></blockquote>If you had taken philosophy in college it would not have helped you understand what if anything the above turd poem means, but you would have learned how to write similar bafflegab of your own. <br><br> John K Clark<br><br><div id="yiv2018688033"><div> <br></div></div><br></td></tr></table>