Descarte's Subversion through Functionalism

“Body am I, and soul”—thus speaks the child. …But the awakened and knowing say: body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.1 In 1643, Descartes was asked in a letter from Princess Elisabeth, how a thinking substance can affect a corporeal animal, so as to produce ‘voluntary action’.2 Yablo claims recently, that Descartes’ division of the substances has resulted in being the primary motivating force behind the great, longstanding philosophical debates surrounding dualism between the mind and the body....

December 16, 2019

Fanboys, Real Theory, and a Séance - Darwin & Marx

I. Introduction – Marx’s Notion of Dialectical Materialism There are some 20th century American scientists who felt the obligation to hold their political views as codified secrets in order to not have their work become interrupted. Stephen Jay Gould was one such prominent member in the field of paleontology. After making a thoughtful reference to liquidation of reactionaries, David Warsh, writing in the Chicago Tribune in 1992, declared that, “Not Max Planck, not Thomas Kuhn, not Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould would have dreamt of citing Marx as an established authority in their tradition; it would have slowed immeasurably the reception of their work if they had....

December 15, 2019

Tor Honeypot Attack

It’s a hilarious demand for hackers to make of anything that enforcement should be ramped up to begin with. One topic that has really caught my attention was how last year the entire management of the tor browser project allowed itself to be upended by sexual misconduct allegations made against one of its members. This software gets widely recommended in the security community for being capable of effectively encrypting your internet connection against many types of potential adversaries....

April 26, 2018

Nietzsche's Ascension

So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia And in the narrowest limits, no limits inhere1 Introduction In this paper we will analyze a series of dominant foundational concepts from the history of philosophy immediately leading up to the writings of Nietzsche that therefore also arise over the course of his own critical project. This will allow us to come to a better understanding of whether he values a certain sense of ascension or if it is identified with transcendence2 for him and therefore gets relegated permanently to the category of religious illusion....

May 20, 2016

Preservation of Online Video Game Servers

Project Goals: Art Restoration & Preservation of Newly Formed Video Game Era High Speed Real Time Encrypted Networking Negotiation of Terms With Large Corporations and Their Excessive Use of Legal Force Liberation of Art Through Encryption, Anonymity, and Distributed P2P Client Networking The plan I had at the beginning was to effect a noticeable problem that was starting to crop up all over the place. Encryption kept coming up over and over again in the media....

April 27, 2016