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• jiganti · Dec 5, 2010 · Recommends

  The Gay Science - Nietzsche - Age 16 I and Thou - Martin Buber - Age 18 Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - Age 17

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• booknobook · Jun 9, 2020 · Recommends

  I and Thou by Martin Buber Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse On Having No Head by Douglas E. Harding

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• carapace · Aug 6, 2019 · Mentions

  …biotech startups seems like pouring gasoline on a fire that we should be putting out. Our divorce from Nature is perhaps the deepest epistemological problem facing us today. Biotech is more of the same. "I and Thou" by Martin Buber talks about the difference between what he calls "I-It" and "I-Thou". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_and_Thou We treat the rest of the living world like things that we can use and…

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• carapace · Nov 4, 2019 · Mentions

  …https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698 Michael Levin's lab are uncovering the physical scientific basis for what a lot of people have always known: life thinks. - - - - Now then, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_and_Thou > Buber's main proposition is that we may address existence in two ways: > 1. The attitude of the "I" towards an "It", towards an object that is separate in itself, which we either use or experience.…

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• gohrt · Dec 21, 2013 · Mentions

  …dispute as an "I-It" situation, like seeing a puddle on the sidewalk, something to casually (or carefully) navigate around, or (in the worst case) plow through and brush off. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_and_Thou http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Buber

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• carapace · Aug 15, 2019 · Mentions

  Thank you! So well put! I would tie it in with what Martin Buber called "I and Thou" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_and_Thou > Buber's main proposition is that we may address existence in two ways: > 1, The attitude of the "I" towards an "It", towards an object that is separate in…

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• carapace · Oct 30, 2019 · Mentions

  Biology is the world. The single most important aspect of all of this is the metaphysics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_and_Thou > Buber's main proposition is that we may address existence in two ways: > 1. The attitude of the "I" towards an "It", towards an object that is separate in itself, which we either use or experience.…

  on “Biology Is Eating the World” ↗
• carapace · Apr 1, 2020 · Mentions

  At the core is the stance or attitude towards life. What Martin Buber calls "Ich und Du", or "I and Thou": > Buber's main proposition is that we may address existence in two ways: > The attitude of the "I" towards an "It", towards an object that is separate in itself, which we either use or experience.…

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• carapace · Jun 13, 2020 · Mentions

  …https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-world_assumption (As a practitioner of Reiki I can attest that scientific medicine does not yet capture all relevant variables.) Last but not least, the crux of the issue turns on what Martin Buber called "I and Thou": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_and_Thou > Buber's main proposition is that we may address existence in two ways: > The attitude of the "I" towards an "It", towards an object that is separate in itself,…

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• carapace · Jan 21, 2023 · Mentions

  …thought it was a metaphor for having kids... - - - - Ultimately this is a metaphysical question: What does it mean to be human as opposed to merely a digital model of a human? Martin Buber wrote "I and Thou" about how "we may address existence in two ways:" > The attitude of the "I" towards an "It", towards an object that is separate in itself, which we either use or experience. > The attitude of the "I"…

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