{"id":1712,"date":"2007-10-30T15:07:54","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T20:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2007\/10\/30\/sometimes-i-suddenly-remember-i-have-a-nonfiction-blog\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T15:10:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T20:10:26","slug":"sometimes-i-suddenly-remember-i-have-a-nonfiction-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2007\/10\/30\/sometimes-i-suddenly-remember-i-have-a-nonfiction-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I suddenly remember I have a nonfiction blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to cite Occam&#8217;s Razor in arguments at the slightest excuse, but it wasn&#8217;t until this weekend that I encountered <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crabtree%27s_Bludgeon\" title=\"'Philosophy Stubs' is a good name for a boxer.\">Crabtree&#8217;s Bludgeon<\/a>.  It fits in nicely with my current working hypothesis that what we call &#8220;sentience&#8221; reduces to the intersection of apophenia and confabulation.  I know that doesn&#8217;t actually explain anything, but it&#8217;s fun to say.<\/p>\n<p>I have a lot of ideas about how that all fits together, and how the Bludgeon and the Razor aren&#8217;t really in opposition (look at me conceiving coherence!), and what they mean when set against the Theravada-Buddhist concept of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Upadana\" title=\"Clearly, my Wikipedia-level understanding of Buddhism should be more than sufficient.\">the nature of suffering<\/a>.  Lucky for you I haven&#8217;t managed to jam them into 101 words yet.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of arguments, yes, I was, go back to the beginning, I updated <a href=\"\/clarity\/#Office_submarine\" title=\"Now links to the first-ever metastasis of one of the terms!  See 'Schrodinger Point.'\">my personal slang dictionary<\/a> for the first time in like a year&#8211;this time with a phrase I actually use sometimes.  I would use the other ones if anyone would understand them, which they wouldn&#8217;t, because they haven&#8217;t read my damn personal slang dictionary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tend to cite Occam&#8217;s Razor in arguments at the slightest excuse, but it wasn&#8217;t until this weekend that I encountered Crabtree&#8217;s Bludgeon. It fits in nicely with my current working hypothesis that what we call &#8220;sentience&#8221; reduces to the intersection of apophenia and confabulation. I know that doesn&#8217;t actually explain anything, but it&#8217;s fun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14,84,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connections","category-fame","category-slang","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}