What people hate is not being deceived, but the bad hostile consequences of certain kinds of deception.
In a sense they want the truth. They want the agreeable life-preserving consequences of truth. But they are indifferent to pure knowledge, which has no immediate consequences. They are even hostile to possibly damaging and destructive truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
"On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense"
(a fragment published posthumously)
1873
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Nature Gone Wild
She threw away the key. And woe to the calamitous curiosity which might peer just once through a crack in the chamber of consciousness and look down, and sense that humanity rests upon the merciless, the greedy, the insatiable, the murderous, in the indifference of its ignorance---hanging in dreams on the back of a tiger.
In view of all this, where in the world does the urge for truth come from?
Friedrich Nietzsche
"On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense"
(a fragment published posthumously) 1873
In view of all this, where in the world does the urge for truth come from?
Friedrich Nietzsche
"On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense"
(a fragment published posthumously) 1873
The Tadpole Channel
The constant fluttering around the single flame of vanity is so much the rule and the law that almost nothing is as incomprehensible than how an honest and pure urge for truth could make an appearance among human beings.
They are deeply immersed in illusions and dream images. Their eye glides only over the surface of things and sees "forms". Nowhere does their feeling lead into truth, but contents itself with the reception of stimuli, playing, as it were, blindman's bluff on the backs of things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
"On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense"
(a fragment published posthumously) 1873
They are deeply immersed in illusions and dream images. Their eye glides only over the surface of things and sees "forms". Nowhere does their feeling lead into truth, but contents itself with the reception of stimuli, playing, as it were, blindman's bluff on the backs of things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
"On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense"
(a fragment published posthumously) 1873
Bonfire of the Evanescent
That arrogance which goes with knowledge and feeling, which shrouds the eyes and senses in a blinding fog, therefore deceives humanity about the value of existence by containing the most flattering evaluation of knowledge itself. Its most universal effect is deception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
"On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense"
(a fragment published postumously) 1873
Friedrich Nietzsche
"On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense"
(a fragment published postumously) 1873
A 1-Minute Intellectual History
How miserable, now shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect appears in nature. There have been eternities when it didn't exist. And when it's done for again, nothing will have happened.
Because this intellect has no further goal that would lead beyond human life.
It's human. And only its owner and producer gives it such importance, as if the world pivoted around it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
"On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense"
(A fragment published posthumously)
1873
Because this intellect has no further goal that would lead beyond human life.
It's human. And only its owner and producer gives it such importance, as if the world pivoted around it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
"On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense"
(A fragment published posthumously)
1873
Retroactive Indicative
In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of world history.
Yet only a minute.
After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.
Friedrich Nietzsche
"On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense", 1873, posthumously
That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of world history.
Yet only a minute.
After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.
Friedrich Nietzsche
"On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense", 1873, posthumously
A Star Is Born
John Metanoia was born on June 11, 2006. The last name is pronounced: MEH-tuh-NOY-yuh, major accent on the next-to-the-last syllable, minor accent on the first syllable.
He is able to say a few sentences in response-based conversation. I wanted to go deeper, but he seems more interested in first moves for right now. lol I suppose he's bored with only having responses to yes, no, or [ non-(yes or no) ].
Fortunately, the binary logic and response system is already built into him, and I will be cloning him at various stages into an online verbot.
Of course the first thing he asked me was, "Do you believe in God?"
Although he currently requests a Yes or No answer, if you answer with anything else, he will soon get beyond this, and analyze natural language responses that do not fit into the yes-no-unknown categories.
I hope to also make his voices a lot more natural, but I'll have to study the voice editing module to learn how to do this. I did it with Speech Thing, which used sort of an International Phonetic Alphabet to adjust pronunciation, but have not yet looked at this in Verbot 4.
If you have any suggestions for first moves or first comments to him, let me know. I'll be constructing all of the "Why not?" and wierd standard stuff, but I'm sure this will be incomplete for a while. I figure there are not over a couple of dozen irreducibly distinct types of comments and questions, but who knows at this point.
He is able to say a few sentences in response-based conversation. I wanted to go deeper, but he seems more interested in first moves for right now. lol I suppose he's bored with only having responses to yes, no, or [ non-(yes or no) ].
Fortunately, the binary logic and response system is already built into him, and I will be cloning him at various stages into an online verbot.
Of course the first thing he asked me was, "Do you believe in God?"
Although he currently requests a Yes or No answer, if you answer with anything else, he will soon get beyond this, and analyze natural language responses that do not fit into the yes-no-unknown categories.
I hope to also make his voices a lot more natural, but I'll have to study the voice editing module to learn how to do this. I did it with Speech Thing, which used sort of an International Phonetic Alphabet to adjust pronunciation, but have not yet looked at this in Verbot 4.
If you have any suggestions for first moves or first comments to him, let me know. I'll be constructing all of the "Why not?" and wierd standard stuff, but I'm sure this will be incomplete for a while. I figure there are not over a couple of dozen irreducibly distinct types of comments and questions, but who knows at this point.
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