#Materialism
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Paraconsistent logic as the lesson of quantum mechanics
Paraconsistent logic is the formal shape of a materialism adequate to QM: time, space and causality cease to hold without remainder.
Malebranche and the rational core of occasionalism
Malebranche's radical split between ideas and matter anticipates a modern insight: their interaction is always mediated by a third term.
Epistemological limitation defines the thing itself
Žižek's core inversion: quantum incompleteness is not a gap in our knowledge of reality but a feature of reality itself.
Nature is a dirty bitch of a mother
Žižek contra deep ecology: nature is not a homeostatic mother but the source of the very catastrophes that buried the oil and coal we now burn.