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American Kestrel: Wow! - Rorty on Ecstasy and Beauty

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Richard Rorty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTSdyxKyHrU

What a reader (Rorty)

What an amazing interview and in a Dutch way

what an amazing attunement (attainment too) to certain kinds of beauty and in reading Nabokov and so many other writers ... and re "neural cascades of pleasure" unique to individuals ...

what presence and consciousness ....

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Inspired by this video again, let's move beauty generation into song and music-making (I'd like to ... ) ... and generate this for 8 hours a day ... way beyond the interview ... and for others ... in all kinds of ways that a variety of listeners would ken to  ... and thereby come to access their own neural cascades of pleasure

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I see this video interview as a ...

cultural portrayal of genius

A Dutch cultural portrayal of American literary/philosophical/neopragmatic genius

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How great and cool for Rorty to connect his own understandings of beauty with both readings of philosophy and literature, and so somehow intimately mind-wise ... and somehow wonderfully

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His talk about ecstasy begins about the 28 minute mark

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How to study this STEM-wise and at World University and School? ... (all 8,000 languages will open an amazing palette) ...

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Of Beauty and Consolation: Part 23 – Richard Rorty




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Revisited and updated most of the Richard Rorty "label" blog entries here just now while at Stanford 

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Richard Rorty was also a professor of comparative literature at Stanford from 1998 when he left the University of Virginia, and he died in 2007.


How to focus much of this here - 

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including therapeutically and even psychiatrically online ...

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How too to study these aspects of ecstasy online at the Google Street View level, the neural level and the nano levels as well as model these in a virtual earth? (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Brain_and_Cognitive_Sciences and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Brain_Computer_Interface and http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/)



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