more associative 'thinking'--or lack of it. Probably not archivable.

[John Bailey]

Weird, I was reading Parfit yesterday after spending the rest of my
life never having heard of him. Somehow I must have happened on his
death elsewhere on the web. He formulated this philosophical problem
called The Repugnant Conclusion which is both interesting and
awesomely named:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/repugnant-conclusion/

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 4:28 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> An important philosopher has just died. Derek Parfit. Tributes are occurring
> and passages from his books are being shared on social media.
>
> Here is one in a tweet (probably unreadable in the archives and by some for
> that reason
> and because it is a picture of a page not electronic bits of text.)
>
> But if you read it, see if you AT ALL associate that middle paragraph and
> the glass tube experience related to egoistic self-awareness, with the
> 'grace' Lew
> feels on the other side of the blast in Against the Day.
>
> Or even to the egoistic transformation of Cyprian as expressed therein.
>
> This is not even close to a suggestion that Pynchon knew this guy's work AT
> ALL,
> just that an artist like him and a genius like Parfit might have a human
> insight like this
>  and both metaphorically expressed in similar ways (a little).
>
> http://dailynous.com/2017/01/02/derek-parfit-1942-2017/
>
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