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Common Knowledge as Life

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2024.11.16
Common Knowledge as Life
A while back I went to Chiang Mai to attend ckcon, where I read Simondon to the ckb community and also gave the somewhat endorsement-like talk below. Of course I have a personal relationship with ckb and also a stake in it, but what I said was indeed sincere. ckb’s distinctive design really does fit quite closely with my own entrepreneurial direction: digital artistic creation that fuses life, culture (history), and information (blockchain). Both my ideas about “a new history of the blockchain” and “an AI life with individuality” can be done on ckb; moreover, the new “Common Sense” (from Common Sense to Common Knowledge) can serve as the foundation…
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2024年11月16日
Immortality: The Intrinsic Connection Between Transhumanism and Web3

Culture & Public Commentary2023.06.08
Immortality: The Intrinsic Connection Between Transhumanism and Web3
This piece was submitted to the article by the new media outlet “歪脖三观,” founded and hosted by Jiang Gungun, and I was honored that it became the inaugural founding text of that media platform. When it was published, it was shortened and polished, and the title was changed to “The Ambition of Blockchain: Anti-Keynesianism, Public Life, and Transhumanism.” Everyone is welcome to repost and follow it. I am posting here the unedited original draft: EDCON2023 in Montenegro has come to a close. In addition to the usual topics of the crypto community, this year’s grand gathering also had a substantial block of topics related to transhumanism/longevity. The earlier “A Conversation…
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2023年6月8日
Should We Defy Gaia? — A Review of The Medea Hypothesis

History of Science & Scholarship2020.04.16
Should We Defy Gaia? — A Review of The Medea Hypothesis
Published in Chinese Science Bulletin (2020-04-16, Book Review, p. 7). The title was mine, but now I’m tempted to change it again and call it: “Will Gaia Die?” The “Gaia hypothesis” was proposed by the British atmospheric scientist James Lovelock in the 1970s, and, together with the biologist Lynn Margulis, it exerted a huge influence both in science and in the environmental movement; it has remained a matter of controversy to this day. The inspiration for the Gaia hypothesis came from Lovelock’s participation in the 1965 Mars life-detection project. Lovelock held that the existence of life would be a planetary phenomenon: life would transform an entire planet’s environment, especially its…
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2020年4月16日
Viruses: Nature’s Temper?

Culture & Public Commentary2020.02.04
Viruses: Nature’s Temper?
This is the second essay in my epidemic reflections; with tensions high these days, please be cautious in sharing it with friends. During the epidemic, every day I have seen many things that make one feel awful. What grieved me most, in fact, was the study on Shuanghuanglian released by the Shanghai branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Of course, as Teacher Tiansong says, one must “beware of scientists,” because scientists, like people in any trade, can be just as good or just as bad; but they wield powers greater than those of many other trades, while people in other trades are less…
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2020年2月4日
[Weibo] Earth Hour

Life & Notes2012.03.31
[Weibo] Earth Hour
I think the significance of “Earth Hour” lies not at all in whether the event itself can actually save energy or electricity. It is a ritual of awe and reverence toward nature. To question whether a “ritual” has any practical use is meaningless.
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2012年3月31日
Freedom vs. Equality — I Am a Right-Wing Socialist

Enlightenment & the Spirit of Freedom2012.01.17
Freedom vs. Equality — I Am a Right-Wing Socialist
Last month I posted an article talking about my impressions of the two Wu teachers’ gathering, and as a result a commenter who was criticizing Professor Wu Tong showed up and we exchanged several rounds in the thread below. It’s not that I absolutely had to defend Professor Wu Tong; after all, my dealings with him have mostly been public and not much private, and I wouldn’t dare pound my chest and guarantee that he himself is beyond reproach. But taking the matter strictly on its merits, and judging only from the circumstances presented by the accuser, I still couldn’t help wanting to defend him: not only Professor Wu Tong,…
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2012年1月17日
Bioethics and Legal System Building — Reflections on a Lecture by Zhang Daqing

History of Science & Scholarship2010.11.18
Bioethics and Legal System Building — Reflections on a Lecture by Zhang Daqing
Today Teacher Zhang Daqing talked about the birth and development of bioethics, introducing many of the ethical dilemmas brought about by modern medicine. What I paid particular attention to was the relationship between bioethics and legal system building. Teacher Zhang said that the development of bioethics in the West has, to a very large extent, been worked out through one lawsuit after another. In China, by contrast, this area is still quite lacking. Teacher Zhang encouraged hospitals and doctors to dare to “eat lawsuits”: when facing things that, although they violate existing rules, ought to be insisted upon on ethical grounds, then they should be done—even if one loses the…
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2010年11月18日
This Week’s Music: BWV 1051 (Brandenburg Concerto No. 6) (and a Few Casual Thoughts on Listening to Music)

Life & Notes2008.11.29
This Week’s Music: BWV 1051 (Brandenburg Concerto No. 6) (and a Few Casual Thoughts on Listening to Music)
http://www.lirazelscastle.net/choir%20royal/Concerto%20No.%206%20in%20B%20flat%20major%20I%20[Allegro].mp3 Although the effect of the new MP3 player is not ideal, in basic terms it is still quite good. After testing, it seems that only some music files produce obvious popping noises during playback, while others can be played smoothly. Broadly speaking, the Flac format is better than APE, but some MP3 files are very choppy. I bought a pair of headphones that cost about as much as an MP3 player, and indeed there is a difference! I only hope they will live a long, long life. The MP3 player is truly a marvelous invention (of course, its earlier ancestor was the Walkman), and it provides a way…
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2008年11月29日
Lecture 46 of the Keke Forum: Professor Li Ruiquan of Taiwan on the Ethical Distinction Between Reproductive Cloning and Therapeutic Cloning

History of Science & Scholarship2007.12.19
Lecture 46 of the Keke Forum: Professor Li Ruiquan of Taiwan on the Ethical Distinction Between Reproductive Cloning and Therapeutic Cloning
**Lecture 46 of the KeKe Forum: Professor Li Ruiquan of Taiwan on the Ethical Distinction between Reproductive Cloning and Therapeutic Cloning** **Lecture 46 of the Peking University Forum on the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology** **Time:** Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 3:00–5:00 p.m. **Venue:** Meeting Room, First Floor, Department of Philosophy, Peking University (Fourth Courtyard) **Speaker:** Professor Li Ruiquan (Director, Institute of Philosophy, National Central University, Taiwan) **Topic:** The Ethical Distinction between Reproductive Copying and Therapeutic Copying Today’s lecture was quite interesting. I have read some books on bioethical topics like cloned humans before, and what Mr. Li introduced today was not unfamiliar to me. What was somewhat special…
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2007年12月19日
The Rainbow Beside Me

Life & Notes2007.09.08
The Rainbow Beside Me
At noon today the sun was blazing overhead, and it was hot enough to be excruciating. I was riding my bike across campus. As I hurried along, I happened to see a couple by the roadside, embracing and looking at something. Following their gaze, I glanced over and saw that it was the automatic sprinkler in the landscaped area, spraying water. I had complained about this thing many times before; it was truly a waste of water resources. Besides, it was just sprinkling grass, not putting on a decorative fountain display—what was there to look at? Just as I was about to ride out of that stretch of road, I…
philosophy everyday life pluralism nature
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2007年9月8日