thesis:book-journals https://wiki.avner.us/ 2026-06-20T20:17:13+0000 https://wiki.avner.us/ https://wiki.avner.us/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2018-08-26T00:38:29+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) thesis:book-journals:eye-mind https://wiki.avner.us/doku.php?id=thesis:book-journals:eye-mind&rev=1535243909&do=diff The Eye and the Mind / Merleau-Ponty (Pages are of Hebrew version) * Page 30 - Science operates in a world of ideas, concepts, models. Paradigms that are subject to change according to the latest trend. In order to succeed, science needs to recognize the arbitrary nature of its ideas, that are created as a result of our physical interaction with the world, unlike idealism which sees the ideas as the actual substrate of the world. We should be careful of giving a-priori status to these models… text/html 2019-02-22T22:17:08+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) thesis:book-journals:the-need-for-roots https://wiki.avner.us/doku.php?id=thesis:book-journals:the-need-for-roots&rev=1550873828&do=diff The Need for Roots / Simone Weil I am not sure how much this would be relevant for my thesis, but decided to keep a journal anyway. * Up to page 17 - Already bombarded with logical truths and that are hard to rebuke. The distinction between obligation text/html 2019-05-21T18:47:05+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) thesis:book-journals:the-robot-in-the-garden https://wiki.avner.us/doku.php?id=thesis:book-journals:the-robot-in-the-garden&rev=1558464425&do=diff The Robot in the Garden Telepistemology: Descartes's Last Stand / Hubert L.Dreyfus * EM.Forster - The Machine Stops - intuition about future social media and interconnected devices. * Telepresence and communication devices increase the doubt about reality, everything is virtual and flat - is it the real world? Or perhaps we are even a brain in a vat? This stems from the western view on perception, based on Descartes. Discoveries of the Late 16th and Early 17th century like the Microscope a… text/html 2018-08-27T15:41:36+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) thesis:book-journals:visible-invisible https://wiki.avner.us/doku.php?id=thesis:book-journals:visible-invisible&rev=1535384496&do=diff The Visible and the Invisible / Maurice Merleau-Ponty * Page 9: The example of the left hand touching the right hand - illustrates the coexisting duality of the subject-object in the body, phase shifting between subject and object in a 'gestalt' like effect.