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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 22h

Philosophers make some wild leaps with their comparisons. Just read JJC Smart saying that the existence of self-flying airplanes means teleology contains no mystery. I often wonder if I'm missing something.

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 7d

Alien Earth should have been a limited series. He should have followed the Fargo model basically.

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 10d

I bloody love Chewier by Ozric Tentacles. More is more. It's an incredible production job too, to mix eight million parts together like that.
cleopatrarecords.bandcamp.com/track/chewier

Chewier, by Ozric Tentacles

from the album Spirals In Hyperspace

cleopatrarecords.bandcamp.com

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 11d

It's Bandcamp Friday so here's a dreamy thing from what is apparently nearly ten years ago.
timedog.bandcamp.com/track/early-...

Early Flight, by TimeDog

from the album Another's Solitude

timedog.bandcamp.com

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 12d

There was a cat on here playing ambient the other day, so I thought I'd showcase a short part of Mooncat's new Works for Organ.

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 13d

What an incredible resource. Robert Kuhn has collated a comprehensive and up-to-date list of the theories of consciousness. Over 300. The expansion of theories, rather than a reduction occurring in the light of scientific progress, is interesting in itself.

loc.closertotruth.com

Explore consciousness theories and implications

A global hub for theories of consciousness—authenticated by leading theorists, designed for professional consciousness communities, and open to all

loc.closertotruth.com

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 14d

“The hand of an over-electrified person, placed on a plate gives a very remarkable impression of the electrified cutaneous surface” — one of the many remarkable attempts to capture “vital cosmic force” in Dr. Hippolyte Baraduc's The Human Soul (1896): publicdomainreview.org/collection/b...

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 14d

Vegan oat bite thingies. Palatable. Exactly what you'd expect from someone with cats named Moon and Maya. Me, that is.

A white bowl containing homemade oat biscuits

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 14d

Strange experiences could be seen as a personal, living and evolving Tarot deck.

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 14d

The Trickster is the ontological primitive of the paranormal.

S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 15d

A terrible thing. As much as I love tea, its has a very small window when its optimal.

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 15d

John Shuttleworth captures my dilemma with tea perfectly - "One cup of tea is never enough but two is one too many."

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 18d

The best optical illusion is a typo appearing in a paragraph you've read a thousand times.

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 19d

Old hotel biscuits for breakfast in the park.

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 21d

Haha. If you are completely consumed by rage at the person now eating crisps on the seat in front of you while showing absolutely no outward sign of it, then perhaps.

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 21d

Glad I'm not alone! It's relentless. Can't read my book. I'm pretty sensitive to sounds to say the least. I find myself constantly waiting for the next announcement. Waiting to be annoyed by it.

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 21d

There should be announcement-free carriages on trains.

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 22d

So glad you liked it. It's amazing. I think its the prose that actually bothers people. I've even seen some people try and make fun of it. It's weird that people get so flustered by other people experiencing the world in a different way.

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 28d

The Martin Buber one was in Milngavie to be fair 😆

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 28d

I know haha... I found Martin Buber's I and Thou in another Tesco not long back too.

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 28d

Glad you're liking it. Agree about the prose. Very introspective and does the philosophy well. It really goes all in it with its vision too. I love it when a book really knows what it is.

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 29d

Thinking about that telly I once had, with a button on its remote to throw you to a random teletext page and how I should have used it for divinatory purposes.

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 29d

That sounds great!

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 29d

Supplication would get my vote if you're after something very ambiguous. I loved that book. Very Not heard of the Kliewer one, but sounds interesting. You know, I've still never read a Stephen King novel.

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S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social · 29d

Hegel's Science of Logic, in German, at the local Tesco's book drop.

A collection of paperbacks on a shelf at the local tescos. Including Pratchett, Zizour Corder, and Hegel.

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