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Just added, to the Writing section at left, a forthcoming neuroethics-esque paper I wrote about neuroscience, free will, our lack thereof, and medical and legal competence. I’m reading Lakoff & Johnson: Philosophy in the Flesh. Lakoff may mention this somewhere explicitly, and perhaps I’ve even seen him do so, but in any case: the modal western spatial metaphor for time is that the future is ahead of us and the past is behind us. For some reason, I am enamored of rotating this 90 degrees, so that the future becomes up and the past down. Besides being more congenial to geological (e.g. sedimentary) processes, there is something cosmically modest about making reference to the stars when referring to the future. I am mostly interested in the aesthetic experience associated with the unification of scientific theory. Why? Because the fact that such unification is possible is the deepest truth about the universe, and the fact that we find such unification aesthetically appealing is the deepest truth about us. |
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