Slog - Comments on A Quick Word on the Cosmic Imperative http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/a_quick_word_on_the_cosmic_imperative Does the Christian De Duve concept of the cosmic imperative mark science's return to philosophy? Has it ever left? (Altogether another important question.) Is there at all a difference between finding existential shelter in the scientific cosmic imperative and finding it in the philosophical will, or will to power, or power, or conatus , or geist? All of these ideas say one thing: The universe is productive, creative, fecund. That fact is evident to the eye. (The problem has always been: is that fact evidence enough for the mind.) What is more interesting than the cosmic imperative, which is still... Copyright 2008 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:59:37 -0800 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:54:36 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Eric What, is, the, obsession, with, the, comma, in, Continental, philosophy?

]]> Eric http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/a_quick_word_on_the_cosmic_imperative#c754357 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/a_quick_word_on_the_cosmic_imperative#c754357 Life Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:12:28 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe is Satan Deep.

]]> Mr. Poe is Satan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/a_quick_word_on_the_cosmic_imperative#c754359 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/a_quick_word_on_the_cosmic_imperative#c754359 Life Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:17:08 -0800 Comment by Morgan Tragically few of us bother to think at all.

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]]> supergp http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/a_quick_word_on_the_cosmic_imperative#c754375 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/a_quick_word_on_the_cosmic_imperative#c754375 Life Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:33:03 -0800 Comment by maxsolomon "Our purpose in life might be nothing more than to be the thought of the universe."

you're wrong on this one, chaz.

see: Buddhism.

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Charles, you crack me up. You TOTALLY punked de Duve, a la Alan Sokal! Nice! F'ing brilliant!


errrr, or else you are just a pretentious babbling pseudo-intellectual... with a terrible case of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

I vote for the latter.

]]> Anon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/a_quick_word_on_the_cosmic_imperative#c754406 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/a_quick_word_on_the_cosmic_imperative#c754406 Life Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:21:02 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle It's thinking like this that got Pluto kicked off the planet list.

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Yay! I learned something new! I like learning! And the more I know, the more I know what I don't know.

I just fucking blew my mind.

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