I recently placed a 24-hour poll on Twitter, asking how much people would be willing to pay for a series of seminar lectures (apart from the seminar). I gave three options: $20, $40, and $80. It garnered a meager 46 votes (from 2300 impressions), telling me: the majority would not pay anything. As it was, 25 of …
Quaestiones de Quodlibet – Prima Series, Q.1, A.1
How does the intellect differ from the senses? Is it merely a difference of degree—a relatively hyperfunctional neurological processing that enables us to supersede the cognitive capacities of non-human animals? Am “I” really nothing more than the firing of synapses in the brain, the concatenation of neurochemical exchanges? Or is human knowledge something—different? Unique? Irreducible …
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