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Rob Kennedy
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Philosopher and Composer - that's it.
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Anyone got any link or book recommendations for #quantum #technologies with a #philosophical POV? #philosophyoftechnology #philosophy
November 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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How could nothing be something? #Hawking thought a nothingness preceded the big bang. But what if that nothingness was a state, a non being state that we cannot access because we are something? #Philosophy #Science
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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I've been using #ChtGPT for two years now and have just deleted the app. It helped frame ideas, and with paraphrasing, but it cannot help with creativity, and that is everything for a writer.
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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This is from people who bring you AI. "Vienna 2025, From #Microsoft Advait Sarkar ended his TED Talk by asking what you would rather have: a tool that thinks for you, or a tool that makes you think?" I've got a tool that makes me think, a brain.
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Here’s what would happen if we turned off all #AI applications right now. #Science would be paralysed, the #arts would lose its distribution pipeline, #philosophy would stagnate, #thought would be constricted and most #writing would be undistrubted. Any #truth is this?
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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#Question for an article I'm working on about why some people feel inadequate about their overall life. Want to offer your thoughts? #Philosophy #wellness
November 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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What's not being discussed here? “underlying all social progress is the fact that human knowledge is fallible but a steady guide to human advancement. The careful weighing of evidence turns out to be a skill that can assist us in both the grandest and most humble of tasks.” Yes, you got it, #AI.
October 17, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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I'm only here for the #philosophy, so hit me with it, especially #existentialism and #metaphysics and don't tell me metaphysics is a meaningless language. I can argue all night long. Thanks AC/DC.
October 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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#Nietzsche died 125 years ago today. Yes, that mad bastard who created some of the most unique thinking of any age died August 25, 1900. #Philosophy
August 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Are the #arts vanishing in your country too?
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The Vanishing Arts: What the Destruction of the Arts Means to Society, by Rob J Kennedy
ANU Kambri Precinct. Photo Florian Groehn  Before anyone removes anything, they need to understand why it was there in the first place. ...
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July 31, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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What if nothing existed? Wouldn't that be something?
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Is nothing something?
The German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), first asked in his work The Principles of Nature and Grace, Based on Reason, “Why is there something rather than nothing?”
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July 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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What do you believe, what's inside your brain, or what you see in the world? #philosophy
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To Live in the Tension Between
Living Between Knowing and Not Knowing
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June 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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One of the most influential philosophers and writers was born today 120 year ago. Jean-Paul Sartre. #Sartre is still prominent in so many ways. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pa...
Jean-Paul Sartre - Wikipedia
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June 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Can #philosophy help solve our problems? Or is it just a lot of hot air?

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Philosophy for Good
I’ve been studying philosophy for over 30 years.
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June 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Rethinking Power: Could We Trust Artificial Intelligence More Than Ourselves? #AI

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Rethinking Power
Could We Trust Artificial Intelligence More Than Ourselves?
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June 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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It is my opinion that the presidential election in the United States in 2028 will not take place. robjkennedy.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
The Trump Effect and its Antidote
It is my opinion that the presidential election in the United States in 2028 will not take place.
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June 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Other People - Rediscovering Each Other in a World of Noise #philosophy

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Other People
Rediscovering Each Other in a World of Noise
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June 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Maybe, what we are missing in our governance is a #metaphysical core.
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Metaphysics: Toward a More Humane Governance
We live in an era of technological acceleration, yet we face ecological breakdown and ideological governments that override human needs.
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May 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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The Most Dangerous Thought - Rethinking What It Means to Be an Individual in a Conformist World.
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The Most Dangerous Thought
Rethinking What It Means to Be an Individual in a Conformist World
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May 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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We have less than 10 days to stop this. I've just signed the petition calling on the new Environment Minister to reject Australia's biggest fossil fuel project. SIGN NOW! nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...
#rejectnorthwestshelf #nonewcoalandgas
SIGN NOW: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!
Sign the petition: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!
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May 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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I'm wondering if #AI tech might be a part solution to help stop the silencing of female voices, or will it increase the problem? Little of AI is built with femisinst design, but it does seem to be gender neutral, or am I wrong? @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Art# criticism today is not just in decline—it’s being dismissed as uninteresting and, perhaps worst of all, unnecessary.
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The Fine Line of Arts Criticism
It’s more than obvious: arts criticism today is not just in decline—it’s being dismissed as uninteresting and, perhaps worst of all, unnecessary.
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May 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Aboriginal #art may align with a Western index of colour, geometry, and form, but this does not make it abstract art.
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Abstracting Country
Misreading Aboriginal art as abstraction erases culture and what it reveals about post-referendum Australia
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May 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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What does sculpture do for you? #art Does it fill your senses?
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The Vehicle of the Senses
If ever there was a vehicle of the senses, it is sculpture.
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April 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Ever been to an #art auction? I attended my first this week. Here are my thoughts.

What is an art auction about?

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What is an art auction about?
As an art lover and someone who dabbles in art, my first art auction experience was as I expected; however, I’m intrigued by the essence of art auctions.
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April 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM