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Alejandro Jodorowsky compares the four suits of the tarot to the four legs of a table upon which the tabletop of the Major Arcana rests.
WTF Is Tarot?
Bakara Wintner
The chemical changes encoded by these systems are modifying the information encoded in these chemical compounds, and therefore they represent a fundamental form of computation. Life is a consequence of the ability of matter to compute.
Why Information Grows
Cesar Hidalgo
Husserl realises that he faces the same obstacle as Descartes’ ‘cogito’ (the conclusion popularly translated as ‘I think, therefore I am’), namely that it is impossible to say anything very certain about ‘the external world’. However, Husserl is less concerned with scepticism about ‘knowledge of things’ and more with scepticism regarding ‘knowledge of self’.
Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
Philip Stokes
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