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ultraspiracle.bsky.social
Cole
@ultraspiracle.bsky.social
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Studying biology @ UIC
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from The Gay Science
"...medicine, balm in some sense. Every philosophy that ranks peace above war, every ethic with a negative definition of happiness, every metaphysics and physics that knows some finale, some final state of some sort, every predominantly aesthetic or religious craving for some Apart, Beyond, Outside, Above, permits the question whether it was not sickness that inspired the philosopher. The unconscious disguise of physiological needs under the cloaks of the objective, ideal, purely spiritual goes to frightening lengths-and often I have asked myself whether, taking a large view, philosophy has not been merely an interpretation of the body and a misunderstanding of the body."
January 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Just finished @evolarlin.bsky.social's Mutation, Randomness, and Evolution. He argues that mutation isn’t “random” in any meaningful sense, but systematically biased, and that “the course of adaptation may reflect modest quantitative biases in ordinary mutations”.
Cover of Arlin Stoltzfus' Mutation, Randomness, and Evolution. A snowy mountain range with a cluster of arrows in the foreground depicting a biased mutational landscape.
January 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Feel like Nietzsche would have liked Playboi Carti
"Our whole discussion insists that lyric poetry is dependent on the spirit of music just as music itself in its absolute sovereignty does not need the image and the concept, but merely endures them as accompaniments. The poems of the lyrist can express nothing that did not already lie hidden in that vast universality and absoluteness in the music that compelled him to figurative speech. Language can never adequately render the cosmic symbolism of music, because music stands in symbolic relation to the primordial contradiction and primordial pain in the heart of the primal unity, and therefore symbolizes a sphere which is beyond and prior to all phenomena. Rather, all phenomena, compared with it, are merely symbols: hence language, as the organ and symbol of phenomena, can never by any means disclose the innermost heart of music; language, in its attempt to imitate it, can only be in superficial contact with music; while all the eloquence of lyric poetry cannot bring the deepest significance of the latter one step nearer to us."
November 14, 2024 at 7:48 AM
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Item from a restaurant menu: "Choco Banana-- Takes you back to the home you could sit down in front of the T.V. and eat a Chocolate Covered Banana"
September 30, 2023 at 4:57 AM