Vashik Armenikus

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In 2019, MIT professor Patrick Winston gave a legendary 1-hour lecture called “How to Speak.” It has 18M+ views for a reason. His frameworks: • Your ideas are like your children • The 5-minute rule for job talks • Why jokes fail at the start 15 lessons on communication:

@demishassabis @grok where is this from

It’s 2am again, my favourite time, and as always reality is still staring me in the face 🧐

@BigBrainPhiloso Aristotle’ argument is strong until you discover brain. When matter in the brain changes so does the identity of the person. So his argument on something else being there falls apart. And yet mystery remains about form.

Martha Nussbaum on why Aristotle believed you are not made of matter. In a 1987 interview on the Great Philosophers, philosopher Martha Nussbaum lays out Aristotle's three-part case against material reductionism, the idea that what you fundamentally are is just the stuff you're made of. His argument is more intuitive than it might sound. First: your matter is always changing. "Matter is always going in and out; it's always changing and of course you do change your material constituents very, very often without ceasing to be yourself." Your cells replace themselves. Your body is not the same collection of atoms it was years ago. And yet you are still you. If your identity were your matter, it would vanish and return constantly. But it doesn't. Something persists that isn't the material. Second: what makes a thing that thing is its function, not its parts. Aristotle uses the example of a ship. Replace some of its planks so long as "its functional structure remains the same, we could always replace bits of the matter without having a different thing in our hands." It's still the same ship. The same logic applies to you. Swap out the components, preserve the structure and function and the identity remains intact. This suggests identity lives in the organisation, not the raw material. Third: matter alone is too vague to define anything. This is perhaps his sharpest point. "Matter is just a lump or heap of stuff and so we couldn't say you are some stuff or other; it's only when we've identified the structure that the stuff constitutes that we can even go on to say something intelligent about the stuff itself." In other words: matter, by itself, tells you nothing. It's formless. You need structure form, function, organisation before you can even begin to describe what a thing is. The deeper implication Aristotle is reaching toward: what makes you you isn't a quantity of carbon and water. It's a pattern. A functional whole. A form that persists through constant material flux. Which raises the question if identity isn't located in matter, where exactly does it live?

@BigBrainPhiloso @grok can you explain the second and the third point more clearly

@cyrusjohnson @KirkDBorne @grok @grok is this for beginners

@KirkDBorne @grok can you give us the main points please?

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@Rachi__01 @grok explain

She's very prepared for today's World 😯😆

Italy is crazy because I just stepped into a random small church in the lower city of Bergamo and it looks like this

@meta_nomad I loved her aeternus

Today, so many adults, it seems, desire to be a child again. Has someone written something like this today, expanding the conclusions for our current, infantile moment?

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🧵 Deciphering 'Big Fish Eats Little Fish' by Pieter Bruegel the Elder This is surreal, cannibalistic scene at the waterfront is perhaps one of the most haunting works by Bruegel. It's based on an old proverb, but it also hides lots of hidden ideas, lets have a look 👇

@DannyDrinksWine “Why are we stopping at the barley field?”

What's a movie quote you use all the time, but no one knows what movie it is from?

@Z_Lib_official @dacui496911 same here

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@MinooFramroze @DrMichaelBonner That’s so well said. I bought his All things comes from divine. Such a great concept and idea. Absolutely awful writing.

@DrMichaelBonner Rare example of me actually being drawn to ideas while repelled by style

I'm sorry: I do not like the way DBH writes. Not at all.

@DrMichaelBonner Love the Armenian one

Packing. Sad!

@TheCinesthetic @grok what’s the study?

After analyzing 400 movies and identifying 126 psychopathic characters, a group of psychiatrists named Javier Bardem’s performance in No Country for Old Men as the most clinically accurate depiction of a psychopath.

@archi_tradition @grok where is this?

What’s the most depressing building you’ve ever seen with your own eyes?

@ArturRehi @grok Political analyst ёпта

@ArturRehi @grok did Putin actually say that he is going to attend talks in Turkey in may 2025?

At the conference after May 9, Putin himself announced the organization of peace talks. He wanted to once again present himself to the world as a peacemaker, but when Zelensky personally agreed to attend the meeting in Turkey, Putin suddenly changed his mind. Trump also 1/9

@ArturRehi @grok So the whole narrative of this thread is based on ‘Putin said he will come to talks but did not come himself’ while the reality is completely different.

@ArturRehi @grok “Based on the available information, Vladimir Putin did not explicitly say he would personally attend the peace talks in Turkey scheduled for May 15, 2025.

@aigleeson @threadreaderapp unroll

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