Nick Cave On Euclid's Geometry
Terence McKenna and John Searle
At 1:08:35 on the dark side of psychedelics: 1:12:38 psychedelics are "proto-religious". So understand the extent to which the various religions are veridical, we need to be very careful about how we construct objective ontologies. 22:17 : On epistemologically objective theories of ontologically subjective states at 28:08 : what ties these presentations and representations together is logic . For example, when Searle states the ontologically objective existence of mountains, molecules and mammoths, there is an implicit theory of geology, chemistry and paleontology which gives us the denotations of the words mountains , molecules and mammoths . And the necessary feature of the logic which gives those words meaning is that it is formally consistent . See Logic . At 33:33 I had not heard this when I made this recording yesterday. (And note the irony that the sound/visual representation slips by about 1 second by the end of the eleven minutes...
Five Common Notions:
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2. When equal things are added to equal things the wholes are equal things.
3. When equal things are taken away from equal things the remainders are equal tings.
4. Things coincident are equal things.
5. The whole is greater than the parts.
I didn't need to explain that in full, did I? Of course not!