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The Possibility of the Revival of Chinese Traditional Culture in Web3

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2024.04.29
The Possibility of the Revival of Chinese Traditional Culture in Web3
It was also at the 2024 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival that, right after the previous talk, “Accelerationism Is Not Liberating Enough; Only by Combining It with Web3 Can AI’s Potential Be Released,” I immediately gave another hour-long talk at Open Stage. Of course, I also want to thank Wanxiang for providing the stage. This talk was also something I was even more eager to share with the broader Chinese Web3 community: “The Possibility of the Revival of Chinese Traditional Culture in Web3.” Are Chinese People Inferior to Westerners? Most of the people at the Hong Kong Web3 Carnival were Chinese, and more than half of the talks and events were…
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2024年4月29日
“It Must Be Rectification of Names” — Politics, History, and Science

Chinese Civilization & the Way of Chinese2016.04.20
“It Must Be Rectification of Names” — Politics, History, and Science
Recently, the issue of the extension of property rights on Chinese real estate has come to light, and many people have only then discovered that the so-called “automatic renewal” in the Property Law as they had understood it was merely a misunderstanding; “automatic,” it turns out, does not include the meaning of “free,” and moreover there is no fixed amount for how much one must pay to renew. Wenzhou said one would have to pay 30 percent of the housing price to renew, and then issued a clarification saying the matter was still under study. But the problem is: if the rules were already established long ago, why must the…
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2016年4月20日
A Discussion of Aliens as a Modern Superstition

History of Science & Scholarship2013.03.31
A Discussion of Aliens as a Modern Superstition
Recently, some netizens have been leaving comments on the blog discussing the issue of aliens (there were some earlier discussions under Jiang Xiaoyuan’s lecture commentary). Since his comment was placed under the introduction page Who Is Gu Bo?, it felt a bit out of place (in general, casual comments and questions may as well be posted under the message board), so I decided to open a new post and transplant the comments over directly~ Although I have already discussed this here and there in bits and pieces, I have always wanted to write a dedicated essay on the issue of aliens; it could be an essay on “science and…
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2013年3月31日
Christian Creationism and the Rise of Modern Science

History of Science & Scholarship2012.06.14
Christian Creationism and the Rise of Modern Science
Abstract: The Christian doctrine of creation is the metaphysical foundation of modern science, and an important thread for sorting out the historical relationship between science and religion. Foster’s essay “The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Rise of Modern Natural Science” represents a typical line of thought: it emphasizes the connection between God’s free will and the empirical tendency of modern science, though its argumentative details are open to question. The key is to clarify the general points of the Christian doctrine of creation and the ways these points correspond to the characteristic features of modern science. The doctrine of creation, at the very least, includes four aspects: 1. There…
science philosophy of science history Scientific Revolution
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2012年6月14日
Reading Foster: “The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Rise of Modern Natural Science”

History of Science & Scholarship2012.06.14
Reading Foster: “The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Rise of Modern Natural Science”
On the relationship between science and religion, if one were to say that the two are irreconcilable, then the focal point of the conflict often lies in Christianity’s doctrine of creation, where Christian teachings about the universe or nature come into direct collision with natural science. Conversely, if one were to say that science and religion complement and support one another, one would still have to begin from creation theory. In 1934 Michael Foster wrote the article “The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Rise of Modern Natural Science,” attempting to reduce Christianity’s doctrine of creation to a necessary condition for the rise of modern natural science, and offering a…
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2012年6月14日
Some Replies on the General History of Science BBS in the First Half of the Semester

Teaching & Courses2011.10.28
Some Replies on the General History of Science BBS in the First Half of the Semester
Before, I was busy cranking out papers and went several weeks without recording the students’ discussions. Today I’ve caught everything up in one go, and along the way I also pulled out some of my own replies; some of them may still be a bit interesting, though most of the views I’ve written about before too.. On Philolaus’s “Counter-Earth” People at the time believed that “ten” was the most perfect number, but with the Sun, Moon, gold, wood, water, fire, earth, and the Earth, that still only makes nine, so people guessed there must be another planet on the opposite side of the Earth, called the “counter-earth,” but has…
philosophy China history of science course
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2011年10月28日
Why Not Revive Confucianism?

Culture & Public Commentary2011.06.30
Why Not Revive Confucianism?
For some reason I suddenly thought of this—could Confucianism be revived? Of course, rather than “revived,” it might be better to say “created.” Master Xianglong has the idea of establishing a “Confucian Cultural Preservation Zone”; he says: Would Confucian culture today not last long without protection? Of course not. Although Daoism and Buddhism are also being squeezed out by modernizing culture today, they still have their “ark” and “paradise” for escaping the flood, namely their ecclesiastical communities and temples. In other words, they have their own “preservation zones.” Within that tiny bit of land around the temples, it is the abbot and the Daoist master who call the shots….
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2011年6月30日
The Qufu Church and the Time and Space of Chinese Tradition

Culture & Public Commentary2011.01.13
The Qufu Church and the Time and Space of Chinese Tradition
Today (yesterday), I was dragged by Classmate Slim to take part in a salon event, where we discussed the question of Confucianism and Christianity, East and West, using the incident of building a church in Qufu as our thread. Although I’ve lately been rather lazy and reluctant to move, I still went, after all, academic salons are activities I’ve always highly esteemed, and since a classmate was organizing it and had actively come to invite me, there was no reason to demur. I had originally planned merely to go along and make up the numbers, but when I arrived I discovered that there were in fact fewer participants than expected,…
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2011年1月13日
The Tower of Babel and the Accelerator — Reflections on Ma Boqiang’s Lecture

History of Science & Scholarship2010.12.17
The Tower of Babel and the Accelerator — Reflections on Ma Boqiang’s Lecture
Today Professor Ma brought us a lecture in popular frontier science, mainly introducing the scientific achievements and latest developments in particle physics and cosmology. People build ever more precise astronomical instruments and vast particle accelerators in order to probe the mysteries of the universe. The still unobserved particle left over in gauge theory—the Higgs particle—has also been called the God particle. Why go looking for such particles? In a certain sense, physicists really are searching for “God.” The Higgs particle is used to patch up the defects of the current theory, playing a role similar to that of God: “The Higgs field once represented all the energy that created…
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2010年12月17日
Reviving the Culture of the Court Historian——The Institution of the Court Historian as a Religious System

Culture & Public Commentary2010.11.09
Reviving the Culture of the Court Historian——The Institution of the Court Historian as a Religious System
Earlier I wrote a paper on “natural history,” but it was rather hasty, and there is still much work to be done. On the one hand, the inner connection between the rise of natural history and the rise of historiography in modern Western thought still awaits examination from the standpoint of intellectual history; on the other hand, the relationship between history and nature also deserves further philosophical reflection. Senior Brother Ke suggested that I read Foucault’s The Order of Things; he seemed to mean that the book would support the translation “natural science” [博物学], but when I flipped through it roughly, it was clearly supporting my line of thought. In…
China history politics faith
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2010年11月9日