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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

Some comfort it would have been, could I, like a Faust, have fancied myself tempted and tormented of the Devil; for a Hell, as I imagine, without Life, though only diabolic Life, were more frightful: but in our age of Down-pulling and Disbelief, the very Devil has been pulled down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 7 (1834)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/78375…

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Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

While everyone remembers Apollo 13 from its namesake 13 ball multiball, its rocket ball lock is quite a cool feature too! The rocket catches the ball, starts rotating upright and then drops the locked ball onto a passage under the playfield. The huge LED 7-segment under it is also a cool detail and something Sega used later in Starship troopers.

#pinball#arcade#mechanism
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Marcin Miłkowski

2/2 How can systems detect error? Not through action failure alone! Inconsistency detection (via info-redundancy) is cognition’s "immune system" (§5). It proxies falsity before outcomes—solving Bickhard’s access problem.

Truth isn’t a ghost in the machine. It’s Neurath’s compass: refined mid-voyage, indispensable for navigation, yet grounded in the ship’s structure.

The paper is published in Phenomenology & Cognitive Sciences (SI on Bickhard)

#Truth#Interactivism#Mechanism
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Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

@KCDOZ I think it has the most batshit crazy mechanisms ever made in pinball; the moving magnet that drags the mist multiball's locked ball across the playfield. To this day it blows people's minds when the newbies see it for the first time, wondering how it's done.

mstdn.games/@apzpins/112440292

Mastodon GamesAri [APz] Sovijärvi (@apzpins@mstdn.games)Attached: 1 video Bram Stoker's Dracula's "magical" levitating ball never gets old for me! Over 30 years since this game's release, it still blows new players' minds. #pinball #90spinball #magnet #arcade
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“…primal cultures held animistic worldviews. They never separated mind and body; what we call “mind” permeated all things. …life was not mysterious—death was. Human societies built elaborate rituals around death because the disappearance of living presence was baffling. … Fast-forward to early-modern Europe. With the rise of mechanistic science, the polarity flips: death becomes the rule and life the anomaly that needs explaining. Something clearly shifted in humanity’s self-understanding.”
—Matthew Segall
https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/prehensions-propositions-and-the
#mind #body #life #death #mechanism #science
Footnotes2Plato · Prehensions, Propositions, and the Cosmological CommonsBy Matthew David Segall
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Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

Big Guns' backbox bagatelle game sounded somehow off. I investigated and sure enough, all 4 bolts that hold the upkicker mechanism onto the light panel were loose, with two nuts missing completely.

After some cabinet bottom searching and Loctite later it works and sounds as it should.

#pinball#arcade#pinrepair
jan
The modern mechanism that is assumed today (and in Bergson’s time) is, in a manner of speaking, a mutilated Cartesianism, or (seen from another perspective) a secularized version of Newtonian physics.
—William Barnard, Living Consciousness: The Metaphysical Vision of Henri Bergson
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jan
“Dynamism starts from the idea of voluntary activity, given by consciousness…: it has thus no difficulty in conceiving free force on the one hand and matter governed by laws on the other. Mechanism follows the opposite course. It assumes that the materials which it synthesizes are governed by necessary laws, and although it reaches richer and richer combinations, which are more and more difficult to foresee, and to all appearance more and more contingent, yet it never gets out of the narrow circle of necessity within which it at first shut itself up.”
—Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
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Teixi

As dilettante #neuroscience student, nowadays it is incredible to have #OpenAccess to @thetransmitter #journalism by contributors & editors divulgative style written pieces, with included opinionated voices from global #BrainScience researchers, on broader #NeuroNews & current #HotTopics

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1 #Mechanism wtf?
Lauren N Ross & Dani S Bassett, ea:
doi.org/10.53053/YPDW9574

2 #MoodDisorder wtf?
@NicoleCRust ea:
doi.org/10.53053/MHCS4874

3 #FEP wtf?
@Neurograce ea:
doi.org/10.53053/UZNK5581

The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives · What are mechanisms? Unpacking the term is key to progress in neuroscienceBy Dani S. Bassett
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