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[Private Presley]

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[Colin B]

Who she ?

[Private Presley]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3meWjic3hM&ab_channel=GeorgeGalloway

Sorry, Colin, I am not trying to hijack this thread.

[Colin B]

Sorry, Colin, I am not trying to hijack this thread.

No problem !

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 16th August:

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William James - US philosopher, historian, & psychologist, the first educator to
offer a psychology course in the US
He is considered to be a leading thinker of the late 19th century, one of the most influential philosophers of the US & the "Father of American psychology".
January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910

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Along with Charles Sanders Peirce, James established the philosophical school known as pragmatism, & is also cited as one of the founders of functional psychology.
A Review of General Psychology analysis, published in 2002, ranked James as the 14th most eminent psychologist of the 20th century.
A survey published in American Psychologist in 1991 ranked James's reputation in second place, after Wilhelm Wundt, who is widely regarded as the founder of experimental psychology.
James also developed the philosophical perspective known as radical empiricism.
James's work has influenced philosophers & academics such as Émile Durkheim, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edmund Husserl, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hilary Putnam, Richard Rorty, & Marilynne Robinson.

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Can't believe that...

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 17th August:

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Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás [known in English as George Santayana]
Spanish/US philosopher, essayist, poet, & novelist.
December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952

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Born in Spain, Santayana was raised and educated in the US from the age of eight & identified himself as an American, although he always retained a valid Spanish passport.
At the age of 48, Santayana left his position at Harvard and returned to Europe permanently.
Santayana is popularly known for aphorisms, such as "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it",
"Only the dead have seen the end of war", & the definition of beauty as "pleasure objectified".
Although an atheist, he treasured the Spanish Catholic values, practices, & worldview in which he was raised.
Santayana was a broad-ranging cultural critic spanning many disciplines.
He was profoundly influenced by Spinoza's life and thought; & in many respects, was a devoted Spinozist.

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Something that is as life-enhancing as music, cannot be called 'useless'

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 18th August:

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William Ford Gibson - US-Canadian speculative fiction writer & essayist widely
credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.
Born March 17, 1948

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Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, & computer networks on humans a "combination of lowlife and high tech" & helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.
Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), & later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984).
These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.
After expanding on the story in Neuromancer with two more novels (Count Zero in 1986, & Mona Lisa Overdrive in 1988), thus completing the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson collaborated with Bruce Sterling on the alternate history novel The Difference Engine (1990), which became an important work of the science fiction subgenre known as steampunk.

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Some of us have got time to spare, William !

[John]

Quote of the Day - 18th August:

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William Ford Gibson - US-Canadian speculative fiction writer & essayist widely
credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.
Born March 17, 1948

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Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, & computer networks on humans a "combination of lowlife and high tech" & helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s.
Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), & later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel Neuromancer (1984).
These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s.
After expanding on the story in Neuromancer with two more novels (Count Zero in 1986, & Mona Lisa Overdrive in 1988), thus completing the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson collaborated with Bruce Sterling on the alternate history novel The Difference Engine (1990), which became an important work of the science fiction subgenre known as steampunk.

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Some of us have got time to spare, William !

None of us have got time to spare, but the internet is a great stealer of time.

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 19th August:

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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, also known as Lord Verulam - UK philosopher & statesman who served as Attorney General & as Lord Chancellor of England.
His works are seen as contributing to the scientific method & remained influential through the later stages of the scientific revolution.
22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626

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Bacon has been called the father of empiricism.
He argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning & careful observation of events in nature.
Most importantly, he argued that science could be achieved by the use of a sceptical & methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves.
Although his most specific proposals about such a method, the Baconian method, did not have long-lasting influence, the general idea of the importance & possibility of a sceptical methodology makes Bacon one of the later founders of the scientific method.
His portion of the method based in scepticism was a new rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, whose practical details are still central to debates on science and methodology.
He is famous for his role in the scientific revolution, begun during the Middle Ages, promoting scientific experimentation as a way of glorifying God & fulfilling scripture.
He was renowned as a politician in Elizabethan England, as he held the office of Lord Chancellor.
Bacon was a patron of libraries & developed a system for cataloguing books under three categories – history, poetry, and philosophy – which could further be divided into specific subjects and subheadings.
About books he wrote, "Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested."
Bacon was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he rigorously followed the medieval curriculum, largely in Latin.

I enjoy solitude, Francis, don't believe in gods, so must be a 'wild beast' !

Grrrrr !

[Private Presley]

Colin, I thought Francis Bacon was quoting Aristotle.

https://literaryocean.com/whosoever-is- ... riendship/

[Colin B]

Colin, I thought Francis Bacon was quoting Aristotle.

https://literaryocean.com/whosoever-is- ... riendship/

Well, my source is the 'i' newspaper, & it seems they wrongly have it as being Bacon !

[Colin B]

Quote of the Day - 22nd August:

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Eric Emerson Schmidt - US businessman & software engineer known for being the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, executive chairman of Google from 2011 to 2015, executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017, & Technical Advisor at Alphabet from 2017 to 2020.
Born April 27, 1955

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As an intern at Bell Labs, Schmidt in 1975 was co-author of Lex, a software program to generate lexical analysers for the Unix computer operating system.
From 1997 to 2001, he was chief executive officer (CEO) of Novell.
He has served on various other boards in academia & industry, including the Boards of Trustees for Carnegie Mellon University, Apple, Princeton University, & Mayo Clinic.
In 2008, during his tenure as Google chairman, he campaigned for Barack Obama & subsequently became a member of Obama's President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, with Eric Lander.
Lander later became Joe Biden's science advisor.
In the meantime, Schmidt had left Google, & founded philanthropic venture Schmidt Futures, in 2017.
Under Lander's tenure, Schmidt Futures provided the compensation for two science-office employees in the Office of Science & Technology Policy.

[John]

Quote of the Day - 22nd August:

Quote of the Day - 22nd August - 001.jpgEric Schmidt.jpgEric Emerson Schmidt - US businessman & software engineer known for being the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, executive chairman of Google from 2011 to 2015, executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017, & Technical Advisor at Alphabet from 2017 to 2020.
Born April 27, 1955

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As an intern at Bell Labs, Schmidt in 1975 was co-author of Lex, a software program to generate lexical analysers for the Unix computer operating system.
From 1997 to 2001, he was chief executive officer (CEO) of Novell.
He has served on various other boards in academia & industry, including the Boards of Trustees for Carnegie Mellon University, Apple, Princeton University, & Mayo Clinic.
In 2008, during his tenure as Google chairman, he campaigned for Barack Obama & subsequently became a member of Obama's President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, with Eric Lander.
Lander later became Joe Biden's science advisor.
In the meantime, Schmidt had left Google, & founded philanthropic venture Schmidt Futures, in 2017.
Under Lander's tenure, Schmidt Futures provided the compensation for two science-office employees in the Office of Science & Technology Policy.

I trust he means what he said.

[Colin B]

I trust he means what he said.

I forgot to add my bit, didn't I ?

I think the words 'trust' & 'internet' don't make a good pairing !

[John]

I trust he means what he said.

I forgot to add my bit, didn't I ?

I think the words 'trust' & 'internet' don't make a good pairing !

"Trust" and any intervention don't necessarily make a good pairing, but there are exceptions, thankfully.