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Dilettante—Math, Peirce, Anomaly, Emergence, Poems — “𝔸𝕟𝕕 𝕀 𝕞𝕒𝕕𝕖 𝕒 𝕣𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕝 𝕡𝕖𝕟 || 𝔸𝕟𝕕 𝕀 𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕚𝕟’𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕔𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣”

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Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman
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"That you are here — that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." — Walt Whitman. “O Me! O Life!”, Leaves of Grass (1892) https://t.co/welCHbWmNd

Leather / Fine Binding, 2018

$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science, Erik Hoel

The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science

Erik Hoel
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It will be fun to read these two new books back to back: Alicia Juarrero. Context Changes Everything || How Constraints Create Coherence @erikphoel Erik Hoel. The World Behind the World || Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science https://t.co/UuOyi5YLnX

Hardcover, 2023

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Republic

Plato
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Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" from The Republic can be seen as being an allegory connecting the cave/light theme to life, but at another level its about the analogy from life to the mode of communication that is ... allegory! Life ain’t life, its an allegory about allegory...?

Paperback, 2007

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