"Granting the idea that "information" is somehow separate from the natural communications of human beings, that it is "owned" by default, that it is the province of abstract persons like "sovereigns" and "corporation" - merely *granting* that idea to be true is how we become slaves." David Reed http://reed.com/ This may be from Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man"
There are more things in this World Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophies Shakespeare Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more: adjective relating to existence. "The climate crisis is an existential threat to the world." PHILOSOPHY concerned with existence, especially human existence as viewed in the theories of existentialism. "The existential dilemma is this: because we are free, we are also inherently responsible." LOGIC (of a proposition) affirming or implying the existence of a thing. the existential proposition that truth and reality are constructed fictions" Even physicists struggle with truth. Reality in the laws of physics repeatedly give way to new findings. The James Webb Telescope finds galaxies beyond the time and space of the established Universe. Anthropologists find evidence of civilizations earlier than documented history. What is truth? The use of the word existential as a syndrome for virtual truth begs the question o...
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