…of life as totally static and the whole of nature as utterly frozen, with only humans developing in this mode. You see when Hegel showed the dialectical development of thought, it was a fairly obvious idea that Marx and others took up of thinking of a…

…a transition in the 20th century where people are the last to get the news. I mean they're still pouring over Locke and Hegel when you know what's really happening is guns and roses and nirvana, and I don't mean the Buddhist state of transcendence. So…

…by the banality of modernity. This is the heritage of all the bad little boys of the 19th century. Nietzsche and Darwin and Hegel and Schopenhauer. These clowns were on a bad trip and they were loud about it. And what they give us is a universe…

…sense. This is tracking of behavioral intent. It's a far cry from being able to tell whether someone is thinking about Heidegger or Hegel by looking at their CAT scan. I don't even know if that's in the works. Maybe you could elaborate on a point that…

…he live? Sometime in the early 18th century, I think. Middle 18th century german idealism. He was preceded Schopenhauer and came after Hegel. Is that right? In the absence of knowing whether that's right or not, I offer the factoid that Rudy Rucker. Rucker…