Tag Archives: Philosophy

Pay the fare. Ask questions later.

P1: An idea represents material.
P2: Movement represents work.

Thus, if we take the train
to represent movement in the sense
of an idea like a word math problem
(from point A to B and back)
as opposed to a math word problem
(being some kind of logical problem),
the train is no less the sum of material and work
as it is of idea and movement.

Points A and B by this account are parts of the train, since there can’t be no movement between them without it (assuming no alternate methods of transport). It should be noted, however, that the Hebrew ‘ובשאיפה טוב יותר’ detected for a ‘hopefully better’ place refers to the speaker’s desires and aspirations.

There’s no shame in paying a fare to get back to where you were with greater desires and aspirations, though the fare-taker fluent with freedom of movement rights might rightly feel that way.

Premise 1 was not intended to read as philosophically idealist, but I don’t have any problem with it happening that way.

Premise 2 will need to be re-imagined if premise 1 happens that way.

Can a point B on a railway line go (so, so and so) far away?


Mind the Planck step

don’t be staring
into middle distance
when the universe grows older
than thought

Butcherbird

Butcherbird – by Brad Frederiksen


Schrödinger’s cat: What really happened

Schrödinger's cat carried observers.

Schrödinger’s cat carried observers.