The Ontological Present: Humanity at Sea
“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support.” – Otto Neurath
No foothold in space, no connection in time.
The Historical Present: Brains in a Vat
The Potential Future: Head in the Sky
The Potential Present: Feet on the Ground
The Historical Future: War on Both Sides
The Ontological Future: History as Arbiter
Free Will, Determinism, Optimal Stopping
"To live well is to live right. And living right is simple. At every moment, do whatever you think is right, and in so doing we will all eventually meet in the middle in the future where right equals itself. Thus we will know who was and who wasn't cheating; who were the contributors to the 'all' and who were the contributors to the 'one'. This is obviously the only optimal strategy."
How is the Universalization Principle so devilishly simple?
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