Behavioural pattern following has an opportunity cost against behaving in some other way (less predictably, more chaotically, etc.). Therefore, human nature has evolved to find that it is most effective to have the innate tendency for following patterns which we actually have. #philosophysky

Explain that it is human nature to create patterns of interactive & social behaviour, all of which are manifestations of emergence definitive of institutional complex systems: why does human nature find it beneficial to follow orderly patterns and how does it so often end up doing so? #philosophysky

Any human complex system is invariably institutional, because any patterned human interactive behaviour is institutional, such that it is institutions, and institutions only, which structure emergent behaviour in human complex systems. #philosophysky #academicsky

Writing, writing, writing, writing... for... virtue and justice! Virtue is practised, justice is won. #writersky #philosophysky

Watermarks are not the solution
About that Anthropic announcement... | By Brian D. Earp briandavidearp.substack.com/p/watermarks... #AI #writing #PhilosophySky #philsky

Virtue is knowledge, so comprehensive knowledgeability implies virtue (incl the bit about not doing wrong for reason of knowing what right is). I don't mean your average professor's level of knowledgeability, mind you (maybe the best of the classicists), I mean the real deal, people! #philosophysky

For Christians, Ephesians 5:21 says, "Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ." For anyone, reverence for peace recommends the same. #philosophysky #uspolitics #cdnpoli

JOB: The Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy (CMEP) at New York University invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Associate in relevant disciplines including philosophy, neuroscience, computer science, and economics. (Deadline: December 1, 2026) apply.interfolio.com/193635 #PhilosophySky

If this is incorrect, the competing thesis (I'm good, I debate, and I'm alone in some sense) is that transactional relations mitigate alienation by rendering economic exchange to be without a social element anyway. However, I don't quite accept this thesis on its face. #philosophysky

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Nature, green tea, Spice Girls (?!), and a locally sourced nicotine vape... these are comforts. Anti-psychologism, a view held both by the most terrible Karl Marx and the most venerable Karl Popper... here is something else. #philosophysky

Curiosity killed the cat, but inquisitiveness immortalized the academic's legacy
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Carlo Rovelli takes aim at analytic philosophy's naive realism

Electrons and minds, stones and laws, judgments & galaxies, aren’t fundamentally different in nature from one another. Neither science nor philosophy, will ever be able to get at ultimate reality iai.tv/articles/car... #PhilosophySky

Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled.... [A]ll would acknowledge that the inferior class should be slaves of the superior.

-Aristotle's Politics
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And shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons....
We cannot.
Then the first thing will be to establish a censorship.... [A]nd we will desire mothers... to tell their children the authorised [stories] only.
-Plato's Republic
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The irascible spirit prefers misery as its cause to aggressively quell it; the peaceful spirit prefers contentment as its cause for leaving itself to happy leisure. As peace is better than war, while the bellicose is necessary against violence, the altruistic is ideal against misery #philosophysky

The way Youth by Samuel Ullman is here published, the beginning of the second paragraph aligns perfectly with my theory of what Plato got wrong about the human spirit. #poetrysky #philosophysky #academicsky
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New episode day! We've been asked "Are Numbers Real?" by a bright 7-year-old and Plato, Theano of Croton and Penelope Maddy help us to decide.

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