I shall long to see the miseries of the world, since the sight of them is necessary to happiness’.

Dr. William W. Schieffelin Claytor

Presidential Medal of Freedom

' Katherine Johnson performed the complex calculations that enabled humans to successfully achieve space flight.

Teyrnon

‘Lord,’ said Gwawl, ‘it is high time that I had an answer to myrequest.

‘Gwawl son of Clud

Pwyll

The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee:I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.Art thou not, fatal vision, sensibleTo feeling as to sight? or art thou butA dagger of the mind, a false creation,Proceeding from the heat-oppress&l brain?I see thee yet> in form as palpable

e hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won

for some brain-tract or process. The height of the curve above the line stands for the intensity of the process. All the processes are present, in the intensities shown by the curve. But those before the latter's apex were more intense a moment ago; those after it will be more intense a moment hence. If I recite a, b, c, d,e, f, g, at the moment of uttering d, neither a, b, c, nor e, f, g, are out of my consciousness altogether, but both, after their respective fashions, 'mix their dim lights' with the stronger one of the d, because their neuroses are both awake in some degree.

we felt the very tendencies of the nascent images to arise, before they were actually there.

considerations. There are facts which make us believe that our sensibility is altering all the time, so that the same object cannot easily give us the same sensation over again. The eye's sensibility to light is at its maximum when the eye is first exposed, and blunts itself with surprising rapidity. A long night's sleep will make it see things twice as brightly on wakening, as simple rest by closure will make it see them later in the day.[9] We feel things differently according as we are sleepy or awake, hungry or full, fresh or tired; differently at night and in the morning, differently in summer and in winter, and above all things differently in childhood, manhood, and old age. Yet we never doubt that our feelings reveal the same world, with the same sensible qualities and the same sensible things occupying it. The difference of the sensibility is shown best by the difference of our emotion about the things from one age to another, or when we are in different organic moods. What was bright and exciting becomes weary, flat, and unprofitable. The bird's song is tedious, the breeze is mournful, the sky is sad.

Each of these minds keeps its own thoughts to itself. There is no giving or bartering between them. No thought even comes into direct sight of a thought in another personal consciousness than its own. Absolute insulation, irreducible pluralism, is the law. It seems as if the elementary psychic fact were notthought or this thought or that thought, but my thought, every thought beingowned. Neither contemporaneity, nor proximity in space, nor similarity of quality and content are able to fuse thoughts together which are sundered by this barrier of belonging to different personal minds. The breaches between such thoughts are the most absolute breaches in nature. Everyone will recognize this to be true, so long as the existence of something

The world picture does not change from an earlier medieval one into a modern one, but rather the fact that the world becomes picture at all is what distinguishes the essence of the modem age [der N euzeitl.

Hence the decisive development of the modern character of science as ongoing activity also forms men of a different stamp. The scholar disappears. He is succeeded by the research man who is engaged in research projects. These, rather than the cultivating of erudition, lend to his work its atmosphere of incisiveness. The research man no longer needs a library at home. Moreover, he is constantly on the move. He negotiates at meetings and collects information at congresses. He contracts for commissions with publishers. The latter now determine along with him which books must be written (Appendix 3).

The essence of what we today call science is research. In what does the essence of research consist?

comparing the new science with the old solely in tenns of degree, from the point of view of progress.

What understanding of what is, what interpretation of truth, lies at the foundation of these phenomena?

game,in other words, can be its own autonomous, self-contained world

a reflection, but as a materialization of the divine, and develop thisthought from theory into ecstatic and political-theological practice

In Andreae’sChristiana Societas, theorigin of the impregnation is “heaven,” the informant is called “God.”Almost four hundred years later, this analysis of “information” seemsto be politically and philosophically more precise and rigorous thanconcepts like “information society” and “information wants to be free”which, passing off “information” as a culturally autonomous, ahistor-ical and self-perpetuating agent, in fact write a crypto-theology ofinformation.

Even religious activation is involved, although ironically,in dubbing software experts and prominent hackers “gurus,” activistsas “evangelists” and, finally, supreme guru and evangelist Stallmanhimself asSaint Ignutiusof theChurch of Emacs