If ... ill fitting ....

this is so profoundly dishonorable

I’m glad to share my new book on organisms, biology and Kant:

When Metaphysics meets Biology. Kantian approaches to Concept of Organism. (Routledge)

The book is open access so you can download the pdf, read, share

#philsci #evobio #philbio #histbio #kant

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

"If you eat my Homer, I'll kill you."

Wonder if any that have slipped through have paid off Trump.

BRB only allowing IP6 connections because bots don't use them.

My hypothesis is that they write their culture into their DNA and pass it on. So sticking around after that doesn't actually help.

As the pope would put it --

(w/ a bit anarchic irony posting to your TL)

Reminder that cephalopods have read/write sequences in their DNA....

Given that "bludgeoned" is such a nice word, I blame the literati.

Bluto

Restvre him! Restvre him!

Don't tell Zuckerberg about this.

If there was, for example, a first surviving eukaryote, why would evolution suddenly smooth out and become susceptible to a 0-1 law when it got to humans?

Hmm... (1) often history is understood to be the study of the "story" of the past from when we have records, while anthropology, archeology have a wider scope? And (2) its hard to refute the possibility that certain individuals may have had decisive influences in a path-dependent process?

‘We’re Catholic first’: Sunday mass attendees weigh in on Trump’s feud with Pope Leo Catholics around Atlanta share mixed feelings on faith and politics as Trump engages in rhetorical war with pope

The No Nothings used to fear this.

And strangely, it turns out in this case to be good, actually.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

(Not always laudatory, of course!)

A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

Government "mindshare" program mandates redistribution of consciousness from the "haves" to the "have nots".

Spare a thought for your neighborhood bot.

a dev taking Sunday off??

"there's no more escapism in this age"??? Those dour prudes, the gays - smh.

I'm a free-speech loving libertarian. Here's why I am sorry that Viktor Orban lost.

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

Ah -- lots of opaque rules, you say? Sort of like the Old Testament? (Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more.)

Remember that God votes in mysterious ways.

BRB Halting problem DDOS on Chinese room: "Ah - so you are Turing complete, are you? Well then, answer this question ..."

"thus poasted Zarathustra"

brb starting a selective breeding program to produce deontological rabbits.

Very good! When I grow up and educate myself, perhaps I'll become a flaneur.

There are more mechanisms for gene transfer than sex or cloning! This is one of them - horizontal gene transfer is another.

tbf that means your not a proper pedant.