Ron Green

Linguist, philosopher, author. "Time to Tell: a look at how we tick" (iff Books, 2018). "Nothing Matters: a book about nothing" (iff-Books, 2011)

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My book "Time To Tell: a look at how we tick" was triggered in Vietnam. #Vietnam

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As we get older, the past changes.

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“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Einstein, which I would rather put as “The world as we have created it is an expression of our knowledge. It cannot be changed without changing what we know.”

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Can one suppose that a statement might be true even if it is possible that we would never know if it were true?

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“Every person is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time”, said Voltaire. The age of AI is proving him wrong.

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“I’m not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens,” - Woody Allen

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Reality is what we think it is. Nothing more and nothing less.

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The past is strange now, but it wasn't then.

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The past is strange now, but it wasn't then.

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@Philip_Goff Discussing "the nature of reality" assumes that there is "reality" (A or THE reality) Why would that be assumed? We would, surely, first need describe what "reality" is.

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@TechManDude @skdh I'm amazed how people implicitly trust other peoples' answers.

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@skdh Anything that increases human intelligence is good. Why the pessimism about AI, which has that aim? Of course, it doesn't happen all at once. Our intelligence didn't happen in one go. Think of AI as Augmented Intelligence.

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Reality is what we think it is. Nothing more and nothing less.

[Camille Gizzarelli @CGizzarelli]

"Skylark
Have you seen a valley green with spring?
Where my heart can go a-journeying
Over the shadows and the rain
To a blossom covered lane

So if you see them anywhere
Won't you lead me there"
- sung by Ella Fitzgerald

"Wheat Field w/ Lark" (1887) by Vincent van Gogh
#lyrics

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@skdh Spinning in relation to what?

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First Sunday of the month discussion is on INTELLIGENCE

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Life is a long preparation for the thing that happens only to other people.

[Camille Gizzarelli @CGizzarelli]

"Have I been blind
have I been lost
Inside myself and my own mind
Hypnotized, mesmerized by what my eyes have seen?"

- 1995 song by Natalie Merchant

"Persistence of Memory" (1931) by Salvador Dali
@MuseumModernArt
#SURREALISM #painting #lyrics

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The discussion last Sunday on "The Metaphysics of 'Here' and 'There':
https://t.co/LOWmPKeH3g

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“What we observe is not reality itself but reality exposed to our method of questioning.” Heisenberg,

[Camille Gizzarelli @CGizzarelli]

I wish for Peace
I wish for Brotherhood and Sisterhood
I wish for Hatred to end
I wish for Love to prevail
I wish for the Safety and bright Future of our Children
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025 !!!