"Kein Punkt kann für sich alleine stehen" - Yayoi Kusama

Just received my contributor's copy of the CUP handbook on Experimental Jurisprudence by @kevintobia.bsky.social, which may well beome the prime reference for anyone interested in the field, given the many interesting chapters and leading authors.

New Viewpoint: Countries allowing assisted suicide should offer candidates psychedelics and support to change their minds. If we truly value life, shouldn't we explore every therapeutic option - even controversial ones - before accepting that suffering is untreatable?
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Also interesting, 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘳.
From Sanskrit, the earthly incarnation of godly powers.

On the etymology of 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺:

Manly strength (vir) --> inherent powers --> implicit powers --> something not really there, irrealis -> virtual.

(from Heim, The Paradox of Virtuality
academic.oup.com/edited-volum... )

Doramad, 1940

... is finally forming by means of which the human explorer will be able to carry his investigation much further... The imagination is perhaps on the point of reasserting itself, of reclaiming its rights. If the depths of our mind contain within it strange forces capable of augmenting those ...

... It was by pure chance that a part of our mental world which we pretended not to be concerned with
any longer ... has been brought back to light. For this
we must give thanks to the discoveries of Sigmund Freud. On the basis of these discoveries a current of
opinion ...

We are still living under the reign of logic... But in this day and age logical methods are applicable only to solving problems of secondary interest. The absolute rationalism still in vogue allows us to consider only facts relating directly to our experience. Logical ends on the contrary escape us.

It constantly feeds on and derives strength from the newspapers and stultifies both science and art by assiduously flattering the lowest of tastes; clarity bordering on stupidity .. The activity of the best minds feels the effects of it; the law of the lowest common denominator finally prevails...

"The realistic attitude, inspired by positivism, clearly seems to me to be hostile to any intellectual or moral advancement. I loathe it, for it is made up of mediocrity, hate, and dull conceit. It is this attitude which today gives birth to these ridiculous books, these insulting plays...