Vědomí je na počátku v podstatě ničím, protože je prázdné, a to, čím se postupně naplňuje, je vůči němu až odvozené, neúplné a dodatečné, ale právě tímto naplňováním se člověk vlastně vytváří. Člověk jako subjektivní já substanciálny pojem ´ja´…. je v tomto smyslu druhotný, protože vědomí reflektuje samo sebe až s odstupem, a tím se váže k […]

Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no […]

I will always be grateful to the god of black metal that gives us the opportunity to discover every day wonderful bands from around the world, like Grey Heaven Fall from Podolsk, Russia, a black metal trio formed in 2006. Black Wisdom is their second album and I feel safe saying that it is a gem. In the music of the Russian band the listener can hear echoes from throughout the history of […]

“The body of the woman is the overwhelming triumph of flesh. The woman is a concrete universal; she is a world, not an externalized world, but under the world, the warm interiority of the world, a compressed internalized world.” —Gilles Deleuze http://christiania.cz/kolaps-systemu-split-w-posledna-minuta / Seneca / . „Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who […]

Nothing has changed. The body is susceptible to pain, it must eat and breathe air and sleep, it has thin skin and blood right underneath, an adequate stock of teeth and nails, its bones are breakable, its joints are stretchable. In tortures all this is taken into account. Nothing has changed. The body shudders as it shuddered before the founding of Rome and after, in the twentieth century […]

Take stock of those around you and you will … hear them talk in precise terms about themselves and their surroundings, which would seem to point to them having ideas on the matter. But start to analyse those ideas and you will find that they hardly reflect in any way the reality to which they appear to refer, and if you go deeper you will discover that there is not even an attempt to adjust the […]

Basically, I’ve talked to quite a lot of people on reddit, mostly on religious debate subs, who will argue that all experience is „just neurons firing“ or „just neurological metadata,“ etc. They don’t seem to be merely claiming that subjective experience can’t exist without a physical body; that much I would understand. I get how within physicalism, […]

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest men and […]

„Finally clues come from science. The most obvious (and scary) conclusion from modern neuroscience is that there is simply no one inside the brain. The more we learn about the way the brain functions the less it seems to need a central controller, a little person inside, a decider of decisions or an experiencer of experiences. These are just fictions – part of the story […]

It’s a powerful realization: lack of effort almost always signals a lack of genuine interest. We’ve all encountered people who make grand promises, who speak beautifully about their intentions, who use words to paint a picture of what they want you to believe. But if actions don’t align with those words, what do you really have? Just empty echoes, echoes that often serve as a tool for […]