Ultimate Philosophy

from "Hogafther" by Terry Pratchett

Category:

Education

Tags:

• social
• science
• philosophy

[darrenfromworksop]

Terry Pratchett's Discworld should be a foundation of modern education.

It's much more reliable than religon for a start

Pratchett's books have taut me so much of the human condition, the man is a genius.

[lordcrapalot]

I remember when I saw this scene on the telly, heh it's actually a profoundly deep and well thought out line.

"You need to belive in things that aren't true, how else can they become"

I believe in that line in hopes that it might become true:D

[Jcolinsol]

@Sonetodecirene

Gravity is an aspect of the simulation that we experience. Keep that in mind, even the laws of nature are just as much a creation of the mind as our fantasies.

[Unexard]

The genius of Terry Pratchett is that the most "human" character of the discworld is... Death...

[Dwarfman01]

RIP Ian Richardson.

[ion010101]

@twdarkflame I think "molecule" was a figure of speech... he meant that you can't find justice anywhere just as you can't find the number 5, or any number, or any abstract concept. You can't find the color "green" anywhere except in the mind. There is only a particular frequency of electro-magnetic waves. Anything in your mind that corresponds to what we call "matter", the feeling of touch, smell, sights, sounds... you can't find them anywhere. They're only in our, well, mindscapes.

[Sonetodecirene]

@twdarkflame

True, but gravity is something that exists on it's own while justice, beauty and so on are concepts created by humans..

[FrancisBerryman]

@phoenixrisinghigh Often it takes a genius to see the things that are right in front of them.

[Sairin13]

This is sort of the positive parallel to Vonnegut's line "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

[kroese1870]

CREATION, CREATE, CREATIVITY, CREATOR.

"You are Gods" - Jesus of Nazareth

"As you think, so will you be and so you will create the world" - Siddartha Gautama

[Codex7777]

@twdarkflame Imagination is how we describe certain brain/body processes. It's not something invisible & immaterial, floating around next to us.

[twdarkflame]

@Codex7777 because you cant touch it. You could argue its generated in part of the brain that is physical of course, but that part of the brain is whats physical, not the imaginition itself.