Jonathan Heppner

Putting Philosophy back in Ph.D. (Philosophiae Doctor)

[Jonathan Heppner @EnactJohnny]

All of philosophy can be reduced to counting to 3, in a sense.

A unity self-differentiates into 2 aspects that form an apparent duality but are ultimately non-dual.

Like a magnetic field (1) N pole (2) S pole, (3) the magnetic force at both poles is fundamentally the same.

[Jonathan Heppner @EnactJohnny]

The West outsourced Enlightenment.

In the West Enlightenment is now seen as a megalomaniac fantasy, in individuals and in societies, while only a Buddha is allowed to be enlightened.

[Jonathan Heppner @EnactJohnny]

Sometimes politics must come first. But at a science festival, help people understand the science before steering them towards political conclusions.

So please wake up, Berlin. 🇩🇪

Wake up, Europe. 🇪🇺

Start looking at the content before you come to a conclusion.

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[Jonathan Heppner @EnactJohnny]

At Berlin Science Week opening, they invite Yoshua Bengio, the godfather of AI, but then focus on 'Doomer Ideology' and AI regulation rather than explaining the technology.

As a European, it makes me really angry. That is not what a science festival should be about. 1/13

[Jonathan Heppner @EnactJohnny]

I expect more from a festival of science.

That's why I'm angry.

We need to put science first, politics second, when it comes to a science festival.

What is the point of organising a science festival if we aren't going to use it to make science accessible to the public? 12/13

[Jonathan Heppner @EnactJohnny]

"Wisdom is not knowing any particular thing, but remembering this truth in every moment."🎯

[Absolute Spirit @HamdinSula]

The paradox of Zen: Absolute knowledge is knowing that nothing is absolute.

Everything is forever becoming. Wisdom is not knowing any particular thing, but remembering this truth in every moment.

Perhaps enlightenment is not difficult to understand, but difficult to remember.

[Absolute Spirit @HamdinSula]

“Reality is a simulation” is what happens when 21st-century materialists stumble upon idealism without knowing the history of philosophy.

They discover that matter may not be fundamental, only to imagine another material universe running the simulation. materialisticidealism

[Jonathan Heppner @EnactJohnny]

I think I'm starting to understand why Europe is falling behind in AI 🇪🇺

Sitting at the opening of Berlin Science Week, and the first big conversation is an AI panel with Yoshua Bengio.

The question on stage: "how do we regulate this?" instead of "how do we build it?"🤦‍♂️

[Jonathan Heppner @EnactJohnny]

I wish more people knew that Aufklärung translates to Enlightenment.

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

The opening paragraph of Kant’s “What is Enlightenment?” goes so unbelievably hard.

[Jonathan Heppner @EnactJohnny]

The reverse is also true: if you cannot explain Hegel using, “thesis, antithesis, synthesis,” then you do not understand Hegel.

[Bernard T. Joy @bernardtjoy]

If you can’t explain Hegel without saying “thesis, antithesis, synthesis” then you need to read much more Hegel.

[Jonathan Heppner @EnactJohnny]

HEGEL > MARX

[Guilherme Gomes Santos @guilherme94jose]

Alex Karp says Palantir is a philosophical project inspired by Hegel.