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  • What Is the Meaning of Suixuan?

    What Is the Meaning of Suixuan?
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    What Is the Meaning of Suixuan?

    What, in the end, is the meaning of Suixuan? Why have I been running this blog? I have more or less forgotten these questions, because blogging has gradually become a daily habit: I write whenever I think of it, without needing any purpose or reason. But after setting it aside for a period of time, the question has surfaced again—why did I want to shut the blog down? And if I do not shut it down, then why should I continue blogging? I dug up a comment I myself left a year and a half ago: https://yilinhut.net/2006/03/24/350.html Gu 2006-07-07 01:59:06 The current orientation of this blog of mine is: First,…

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  • Nonsense about “Feeling”

    Philosophy & Thought

    Nonsense about “Feeling”

    Rewriting “to be is to be perceived” — “Dasein is sensation.” Human beings from beginning to end are a convergence of sensations. Sensation (the senses, perception) does not, in essence, have a distinction between “inside” and “outside”; on the contrary, the distinction between “inside” and “outside,” just like “hot and cold,” “light and dark,” “high and low,” “strong and weak,” and so on, is a differentiation that arises from sensation. What is special, however, is that the distinction between “inside” and “outside” comes from “sensation of sensation,” that is, “self-consciousness.” This capacity is generally considered uniquely human, or at least something at which human beings are especially adept. The concrete…

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  • Friend

    Friend
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    Friend

    What kind of person is your friend? Not someone for whom you can die; that is your “idol.” Nor someone for whom you live; that is only your beloved. Nor necessarily someone you spend every day with, inseparable; that may just be playmates. Nor necessarily someone who shares your ideals and understands you; that may be comrades or bosom friends. Simply put, a friend is someone with whom you can share joy and shoulder sorrow. You are sad because your friend is sad, and joyful because your friend is joyful. Sorry, I said that wrong. Such a person is your family. Well, anyway, friends and family are more or less…

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  • A Book-Buying Maniac’s Self-Justification

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    A Book-Buying Maniac’s Self-Justification

    Quoting Lao Yang, my characteristic is “as addicted to books as to life, buying books by the mountain”; the books I have piled up already number beyond counting, and it seems that, like our universe, they are actually still expanding at an accelerating rate…… Many teachers and senior students had long since tried to persuade me that there was no need to buy so many books, because in the end these books would all be useless. They told me that once one has entered the proper track of scholarship, the more important readings are original foreign-language works; Chinese books are, on the one hand, unlikely to be of the highest…

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  • What Is So Good About a Philosophy Department? — Written for Parents

    Philosophy & Thought

    What Is So Good About a Philosophy Department? — Written for Parents

    Poor parents across the world all feel this way: if their children actually choose to study philosophy, it is rather like their children saying they want to join the underworld, or saying they want to marry an eighty-two-year-old man. How many parents would not be deeply worried by that? Such anxiety is only natural. A single casual choice can alter the whole second half of one’s life; how much more so matters as major as the college entrance examination and choosing a major? The child has not yet seen the world, so how could parents not keep a close eye on things? Indeed, many people are simply not suited to…

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  • Why Should We Have “Cultural Self-Awareness”?

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    Why Should We Have “Cultural Self-Awareness”?

    The course on globalization has finally reached ZW’s report; it looks as though next week it will be my turn…… Today’s topic feels as though it can be linked both to my last talk on “preserving commonality while seeking difference” and to the issue of media culture that I will be discussing next time. One of the most basic questions that ZW did not develop is: why cultural self-consciousness? Why should we identify with our own culture? In the eyes of people like us, “stubbornly attached to the old,” what we urgently need is to revive a cultural identity that is steadily fading. But to those fashionable new-century new human…

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  • Stream of Consciousness (Old Post)

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    Stream of Consciousness (Old Post)

    This essay was written in March 2002, when I was in tenth grade. I happened to find the original text on my computer and post it here for a look; the problem remains the problem. September 5, 2006 1．Introduction Where does consciousness reside? You may answer without hesitation: consciousness is a function of the human brain. But have you ever thought: which part of the human brain does consciousness reside in? How does the human brain produce consciousness? Will strong AI have consciousness? Can one “consciousness” reside in multiple brains; and how many consciousnesses might one brain possess? I cannot answer these questions very well; these are questions that even…

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  • You chose it yourself, and you’ll still refuse to admit you were wrong

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    You chose it yourself, and you’ll still refuse to admit you were wrong

    A true brave person will not regret the choices he made on his own; a coward, by contrast, is just the opposite: he finds it easier not to regret the choices someone else made for him, because in the end he can always dump the responsibility on somebody else. Weigh the options yourself, choose for yourself, decide for yourself, and bear it yourself. Listen appropriately to other people’s opinions, but never “seek help” from others, and even less should you depend on other people’s opinions. If the final result turns out as you wished, go thank those who selflessly offered you advice; if the final result is less than satisfactory,…

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  • A Casual Recollection of My Growing Up: An Interlude on Games

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    A Casual Recollection of My Growing Up: An Interlude on Games

    ——————————————(continued from previous)—————————— Let me slow down a bit and write about high school first. What I wrote before was mostly about my academic life, but study and entertainment have always been inseparable. So here I’ll look back once more at the various forms of entertainment and games I’ve enjoyed since childhood: When I was very little there was nothing especially distinctive. I played the toys that ordinary little boys liked to play with, and most of them I barely remember now. What I do remember is that when I was a child I often liked to buy those pretty elastic balls made of rubber. At the time, along Fuyou…

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  • My Life Ideal—The Abstract and the Concrete, the Passive and the Active

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    My Life Ideal—The Abstract and the Concrete, the Passive and the Active

    Recently someone happened to mention the topic of life ideals (seehttp://www.gotopku.cn/forum/viewthread.php?tid=39888&fpage=1), and I realized that I have never written out my own “life ideals” here in full, so I’ll jot down a few lines offhand. My “whole set” of life ideals was already determined long ago. To put it grandly for once (this article is just a bit of casual chatter): this is truly rare. Things like life ideals have no distinction of high or low, deep or shallow, but there is a distinction between being definite and being vague. When asked what one’s ideals in life are, answers like “hard to say,” “I haven’t thought it through,” “probably something…

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