Solipsism (from the Latin ipse = "self" and solus = "alone") is the metaphysical belief that only oneself exists, and that "existence" just means being a part of one's own mental states — all objects, people, etc, that one experiences are merely parts of one's own mind. This view is first recorded with the presocratic sophist Gorgias (c.483-375 BC) who is quoted by Sextus Empiricus as having stated:

1. Nothing exists


2. Even if something exists, nothing can be known about it, and


3. Even if something could be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others

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...is exciting news for us. It confirms great news about Yahoo!. I met their senior management last October. They had, imho, precisely the right vision of a future net. Not a platform for delivering whatever, but instead a platform for communities to develop. With the acquisition of Flickr, the step into blogging and now this tool to locate the welcome mats spread across the net, that vision begins to turn real.

That clarity of mind, which is so hard to obtain, dispels fear, but also blinds. If the shaman yields to this make-believe power, they have succumbed to his second enemy and will be patient when shaman should rush. And the shaman will fumble with learning until they wind up incapable of learning anything more.

The shaman must defy clarity and use it only to see, and wait patiently and measure carefully before taking new steps; they must think, above all, that clarity is almost a mistake. And a moment will come when the shaman will understand that his clarity was only a point before his eyes. And thus he will have overcome his second enemy, and will arrive at a position where nothing can harm the shaman anymore. It will be true power, the third enemy of shaman.

what I saw was a couple in love, singing a tender romantic ballad that transcended language, pitch, and key

But then came the march of the Internet. And with it came Nicky Negroponte and the MIT narrowcasters. Intelligent Agents. You found yourselves desktopped and given an infinite regress of your own trivial selectivity. Your psyche was now fully balkanized. Decided that only the trite was true, you tried to make a Zeitgeist of banality. You packed your zeitgeist full of silly things—the Brady Bunch, !killbarney newsgroups, Hello Kitty fanclubs. It was an anti-zeitgeist really. A curtain call for rallying cries. A kiss goodbye to World historic Generational Top 10 Revolutions. Branded with an X, it was nothing much...

We theorize that there are more readers of publications about the net than of the net itself, but only because it's less painful.

Technology devolved us from voracious readers to expert searchers and heavy users of the Find command

"It was astonishingly gratifying. I didn't expect epic poems, but some of these folks wrote volumes, and it moved me to tears," Czarny said. "This business is ethereal. I have no idea what effect I've had, and it (the survey) turned out to be the best thing I've done."

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In the future, he says, “there will be hundreds of tools to reach consumers and customers, and a quacking duck will be just one of these. . . .

some kind of mix of del.icio.us and BlogThis

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This day is weird. It feels like a Monday. Yesterday a Sunday. St Patrick's Day is the reason. First day of Spring.

Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 02:06:03 -0700
From: Rene Blackman
To: Me
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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:04:10 +0500
From: Letitia Delacruz
To: Me
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