I agree with Iain McGilchrist’s position on utilitarianism and longtermism (55:44), and death (2:22:45), and I would support him not with sophisticated theories, but with the Romanian fairy tale “Youth Without Aging and Life Without Death”. There is a hero who succeeds in acquiring what Gilgamesh, for example, had sought, namely immortality, but in the … More Marcel Chelba – Second Comment to ”The Potential of the Human Brain / ft. Iain McGilchrist”

https://www.quora.com/I-spend-literally-twenty-minutes-on-one-sentence-when-reading-Kant-Is-this-too-fast-or-too-slow Hi Vishal, do not despair, it took me four years to read the Critique of Pure Reason. This book cannot be read like a novel, but only in stages, and between these stages you need long periods of reflection and spiritual growth. I was 35 years old when I started reading CPR, in the … More Marcel Chelba – Answer to the question “I spend literally twenty minutes on one sentence when reading Kant. Is this too fast or too slow?” (Quora)

I. Can a computer remember something it never learned? The human mind does exactly that through intuition. This is what Plato called anamnesis and Kant called synthetic a priori knowledge. Computers will never be able to do that. Their way of learning and thinking is just a kind of “ars combinatorica” (Leibniz). Why? I will … More Marcel Chelba – Comments to ”Math Will Never Be the Same Again… | Yang-Hui He”

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My comment: Ein großartiger Vortrag, aber hier sind ein paar Klarstellungen erforderlich.Die Demokratie ist keine griechische Erfindung, sondern ein Gesellschaftsmodell, das die Griechen von den Pelasgern übernommen haben – der Zivilisation, die den Griechen auf der Balkanhalbinsel vorausging und vom so genannten „Alteuropa“ abstammt (siehe Harald Haarmann: ”Wer zivilisierte die Alten Griechen? Das Erbe der … More Marcel Chelba – ”Demokratie am Abgrund?”