Jack's New Ethos

Tag: innovation

  • On Justice

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    Jack Neoveris
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    A safe and secure society does not come about on its own, and it is not as simple as keeping people safe from bodily harm either. For there to be a just society, there needs to be a philosophy of what aspects of the human condition we protect, and how we go about making that…

  • On Amorvera

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    Jack Neoveris
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    Linguistic Anthropology informs us that meaning is crafted by human cultures. This means that before human culture crafts meaning as a mode of assigning values to concepts and things, there is no meaning, no value, to anything. The world is then just an absurd chemical reaction, without any intelligence or purpose behind any of its…

  • On Subterfuge

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    Jack Neoveris
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    Nations are loosely collected, if not rather diffuse, groupings of corporations that don’t necessarily have a common geopolitical objective. Corporations can be bought out quite easily in their interests, as can politicians, as can grassroots movements. The Chinese have grown quite adept at this practice—I know this, after all, I am a Canadian. Algorithms can…

  • On Innovation

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    Jack Neoveris
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    I have a vague idea of my own about how the mind achieves various levels of understanding, comprehension, and creativity. This idea is pure speculation and may stem from a completely rudimentary understanding of how the mind works, based on my casual dabbling in endocrinology and basic neuroanatomy. However, this is how I understand the…