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Brautigan: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace 01 |
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Friday, 07 July 2017 |
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Richard Brautigan
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.
I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.”
Poem from “Richard Brautigan's All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.”
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 08 July 2017 )
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Hume:Enquiry 01 |
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Sunday, 16 April 2006 |
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David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Sect. VII. Of the Idea of necessary Connexion, Part I.
"THE great advantage of the mathematical sciences above the moral consists in this, that the ideas of the former, being sensible, are always clear and determinate, the smallest distinction between them is immediately perceptible, and the same terms are still expressive of the same ideas, without ambiguity or variation."
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 18 October 2009 )
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de La Mettrie: L'Homme Machine 01 |
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Sunday, 16 April 2006 |
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Julien Offray de La Mettrie
L'Homme Machine
Page 14 of the Open Court Classics edition.
"IL ne suffit pas à un sage d'étudier la nature et la vérité; il doit oser la dire en faveur du petit nombre de ceux qui veulent et peuvent penser; car pour les autres, qui sont volontairement esclaves des préjugés, il ne leur est pas plus possible d'atteindre la vérité, qu'aux grenouilles de voler."
The complete english translation can be found here. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 18 October 2009 )
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