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Wectar

@wectar.com

Do or do not. There is no try. — Yoda

#Yoda #naturalphilosophy #gratitude #practicalphilosophy #serenity

October 16, 2026 at 3:31 PM

goldenarchivepress.bsky.social

@goldenarchivepress.bsky.social

Balance links matter, climate, medicine, bodily constitution, and life. The central figure’s extraordinary origin is imagined as an equilibrium of natural conditions.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6PTFQFG

#SonOfTheIsland #FourElements #NaturalPhilosophy #HistoryOfScience #GoldenArchivePress

October 7, 2026 at 7:02 PM

goldenarchivepress.bsky.social

@goldenarchivepress.bsky.social

Son of the Island joins geography, astronomy, medicine, and philosophy: the heavens shape climate and climate shapes bodily temperament within one natural order.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6PTFQFG

#SonOfTheIsland #NaturalPhilosophy #MedievalScience #Cosmology #GoldenArchivePress

October 3, 2026 at 7:02 PM

Richard Carrier, PhD

@richardcarrier.info

Take any of my online correspondence courses in October and pick my brain in forums with any questions you ever had about the subject. #freewill #naturalphilosophy #history #counterapologetics #CriticalThinking #moralsandvalues #ancientatheism #ancientscience

www.richardcarrier.info/archives/16919

Take Any of Ten Online Courses in Any Future Month! • Richard Carrier Blogs

Including skills in philosophy & history, debunking & argument; free will; moral reasoning; atheism in ancient Greece & Rome.

www.richardcarrier.info

September 23, 2026 at 2:35 PM

Columbia University Press

@columbiaup.bsky.social

Now available! A bold intervention into environmental philosophy, CRITICAL PLANETARY ROMANTICISM reconceives new materialism and in so doing lays the groundwork for a new planetary politics. buff.ly/iZ6fuNV #Romanticism #PlanetaryRomanticism #Philosophy #NaturalPhilosophy #ReadUP

Graphic for Critical Planetary Romanticism: Religious and Scientific Sources for a New Materialism by Whitney A. Bauman, announcing it is now available. Quote: “It should be required reading for those seeking reattunements to the planetary community.” —Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. Save 20% with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

August 13, 2026 at 5:15 PM

Glenn Carruthers 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚🪐🤖⚽️

@drnpc.bsky.social

Join us as we talk about Corey J Maley's 2026 paper "Structural representation is analog representation"
#philosophy #science #naturalphilosophy #analyticphilosophy #mind #cognitivescience #cognitiveneuroscience #neuoscience #semiotics #representation #mentalrepresentation
youtu.be/COS4JZ-Zmho

August 9, 2026 at 1:18 AM

Glenn Carruthers 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚🪐🤖⚽️

@drnpc.bsky.social

Join us as we talk about Corey J Maley's 2026 paper "Structural representation is analog representation"
#philosophy #science #naturalphilosophy #analyticphilosophy #mind #cognitivescience #cognitiveneuroscience #neuoscience #semiotics #representation #mentalrepresentation
youtu.be/COS4JZ-Zmho

August 7, 2026 at 1:15 AM

Glenn Carruthers 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚🪐🤖⚽️

@drnpc.bsky.social

Join us as we talk about Corey J Maley's 2026 paper "Structural representation is analog representation"
#philosophy #science #naturalphilosophy #analyticphilosophy #mind #cognitivescience #cognitiveneuroscience #neuoscience #semiotics #representation #mentalrepresentation
youtu.be/COS4JZ-Zmho

August 6, 2026 at 5:49 AM

Glenn Carruthers 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚🪐🤖⚽️

@drnpc.bsky.social

Join us as we talk about Corey J Maley's 2026 paper "Structural representation is analog representation"
#philosophy #science #naturalphilosophy #analyticphilosophy #mind #cognitivescience #cognitiveneuroscience #neuoscience #semiotics #representation #mentalrepresentation
youtu.be/COS4JZ-Zmho

August 5, 2026 at 2:45 AM

Glenn Carruthers 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚🪐🤖⚽️

@drnpc.bsky.social

Join us as we talk about Corey J Maley's 2026 paper "Structural representation is analog representation"
#philosophy #science #naturalphilosophy #analyticphilosophy #mind #cognitivescience #cognitiveneuroscience #neuoscience #semiotics #representation #mentalrepresentation
youtu.be/COS4JZ-Zmho

August 4, 2026 at 3:24 AM

Wectar

@wectar.com

Become who you are. —Friedrich Nietzsche

#FriedrichNietzsche #naturalphilosophy #selfawareness #knowledge #zen

July 31, 2026 at 8:22 AM

Hai Q

@andyrukes.ca

~
𝑰𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒅
𝑨 𝒑𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒚
𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒎
~
#Haiku #HaiQ #Metaphysics #Spirituality #Physics #Cosmology #Consciousness #NaturalPhilosophy #SacredScience #VSS365 #Magnetism

July 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM

P. Phi

@p-phi-cc.bsky.social

On recursion in complex environments.

Full article: p-phi.cc/articles/run...

The analogy use a wagon on a track to describe classic recursions.

Complex ones arise when the wagon stops and you start running the track.

#recursion #philosophy #naturalphilosophy #complexity #dynamic #pphi

June 28, 2026 at 2:30 AM

P. Phi

@p-phi-cc.bsky.social

Base-1: Observational arithmetic

Numbers as sequences of 1.
Zero and infinity as U (unobserved).
Negative numbers as projection into another dimension.

Full version:
p-phi.cc/articles/bas...

This is NOT unary.

#base-1 #arithmetic #mathematics #philosophy #observation #naturalphilosophy #pphi

June 16, 2026 at 3:48 PM

Glenn Carruthers 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚🪐🤖⚽️

@drnpc.bsky.social

we did a thing talking about non-mental represenntations because they'll be needed for later

#ideas #podcast #philosophy #naturalphilosophy #semiotics #cognitivescience #philosophyofmind #philmind

Mind-Craft Consciousness 101 e6: Von Eckardt's Triadic Analysis of Non-Mental Representation

YouTube video by Elizabeth Schier

youtu.be

June 16, 2026 at 7:40 AM

Wectar

@wectar.com

The more I see, the less I know for sure. —John Lennon

#JohnLennon #buddhistthought #selfdiscovery #naturalphilosophy #profoundthoughts

June 12, 2026 at 8:35 AM

P. Phi

@p-phi-cc.bsky.social

Kubernetes, declarative? What are init-containers for?

A possible answer:

p-phi.cc/articles/the...

The above article argues that declarativity is not an intrinsic property but a relation between usage and scope.

#devops #systemsengineerng #declarative #imperative #naturalphilosophy #pphi