Thinking The World

I don't understand why most of today's groups continue to try to make believe the people that their music is original: most music released today is a rearranged copy of something you've never heard.

It would be way better to our ears if we decided that all music released more than 10 years ago became public domain: it would allow underground bands to play more covers in the bars, adding some of their style, but not having to hide that 90% of what they do is copy from somebody else..

This is quite applicable to all kinds of art. It is maybe time to discover the art of reinterpretation (it would be better to reinterpret El Greco in a Monet style than to loose time trying to interpret Miro's art in my humble opinion).

Maybe it would also reduce the number of shitty DJays playing around...hehe

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Posted By: Uula Limanski - Category: Daily life

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Idiot correlations

November 19th 2009 11:47

Economists love to invent stupid theories of how 2 completely separate things are correlated. They believe (and make believe) that when you compare 2 variables and, after some basic math, check that they are "correlated", you can guess the value of one by having the values of the other.

Models like these for example find that the expenses in beer and evolution of the GDP of a country a correlated; the number of rock songs in the Rolling Stone 500 best songs of all time and the production of oil are correlated; etc.

Well, I'm a fashion victim as well: I've just noticed, after 5 years of deep study on the matter, that 80% of the serial killers of the world eat bread for their breakfasts. So next time you'll be interviewing someone to do some babysitting for your kid, remember to ask what they eat in the morning...

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being and time (small philosophy exercice for a friend)

September 23rd 2009 08:54

One of the hardest points to understand in phylosophy allways seemed to me a problem of quality of explanation (once i understood the solution for it, of course). It is the solution for the antinomy between Realism and Idealism created following Kant's philosophy.

Let me explain from the beginning: when Kan't proposed that the interpretation we have from the hold is not exactly what it is - the representation problem, the difference between Noumena (what things are) and Phenomena (what things are for us) - he created a problem: how can we prove that the world in front of you is real

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Posted By: Uula Limanski - Category: Physics, Wisdom

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Il faut pouvoir tout remetre en question, mais il faut pas tout questioner

September 20th 2009 08:53

Good moto for a philosophy book: "You must be able to question everything, but don't question everything."

Basis for any person who ever wanted to do any science and arrived somewhere. If you don't question nothing, it is meaningless to start trying. Start by questioning why do you keep your job or live in a certain city

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Limits and Kafka to understand our structures

August 13th 2009 19:53

In the last century we had to get used to something new to humanity, the "kafkaiene" structures: organisations that get to big and completely discoordinated that we are completely out of any reality and reasoning when dealing with it (please read the Proces, the best book written in the XXth century).

Now that we're used to them, I'd like to give an approach to it for us to avoid crucifing all people that work for a given structure (company, state, any kind of organisation). Structures that get too big are not human any more, and no one inside them can be considered the fault of their errors. I mean, if someone worked for the US government during the Bush era, its not thier fault if the US had such a terrible diplomacy

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Posted By: Uula Limanski - Category: Ethics

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The Schopenhauer's sessions - His definition of reason, our definition

July 21st 2009 11:12

Following item 3 of the first chapter of the book:

"The capacity of creating abstract notions (...) is what we have allways called reason

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The Schopenhauer's sessions - Subject and object, who comes first

July 16th 2009 14:44

From the first page of the book we see (free translation, from French):

"everything that exists, exists for the mind, it means, the hole universe is an object for a subject, (..) it is pure representation

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The Schopenhauer's sessions - Matter, time and space

July 13th 2009 18:30

Following some holidays and "The World as will and representation" from Schopenhauer (read in French, I don't know German..), here we go for a little series of posts.

This one is on time, space and matter (as all philosophers like to start their books

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