Zohar AtkinsinWhat Is Called Thinking?Is Language a Form of Déjà Vu?Thank you for following the daily question! I’m moving the project to Substack. Here’s today’s questionSep 10, 2020Sep 10, 2020
Zohar AtkinsinWhat Is Called Thinking?Is Silence Universal?Obviously, everyone has the ability to be silent, and I’m sure most languages have a word for “silence.” Still, the question is if the…Sep 9, 2020Sep 9, 2020
Zohar AtkinsinWhat Is Called Thinking?What Are The Theological Implications of Scale?Geoffrey West writes that the world is composed of fractals: every entity is a scaled up or scaled down version of another entity — a city…Sep 8, 2020Sep 8, 2020
Zohar AtkinsinWhat Is Called Thinking?Is there anything that unites all people who put flags outside their houses as distinct from those…Are we more likely to find flags in places where the flag represents something controversial (or conventional)?Sep 7, 2020Sep 7, 2020
Zohar AtkinsinWhat Is Called Thinking?Can philosophy be scaled without becoming a) culty b)boozhie-consumerist or c) corrupted in the…Sep 6, 2020Sep 6, 2020
Zohar AtkinsinWhat Is Called Thinking?A Phenomenological Challenge to AI and VROne of Heidegger’s arguments in Being and Time is that we relate to objects, particularly tools, in terms of their function. Thus a hammer…Sep 4, 2020Sep 4, 2020
Zohar AtkinsinWhat Is Called Thinking?Why is Beauty (Sometimes Painful to Behold?Nietzsche writes, "A promise made is a debt unpaid.”Sep 3, 20201Sep 3, 20201
Zohar AtkinsinWhat Is Called Thinking?What’s Wrong With Mindfulness?Preserving Mystery in a Demystified WorldSep 2, 2020Sep 2, 2020
Zohar AtkinsinWhat Is Called Thinking?Morality vs. ToleranceNassim Taleb writes in Skin in the Game that morality is best understood as the set of norms that bind you to your tribe (kind of like a…Sep 1, 2020Sep 1, 2020
Zohar AtkinsinWhat Is Called Thinking?As Above, So Below?Carl Schmitt writes in Political Theology, that all political concepts have their derivation in theology; the “state of exception” or…Aug 31, 2020Aug 31, 2020