Thanks, I’ll check it out.
I think the idea is sound except for the anthropomorphism. It sounds like a teleological fallacy. But , there is no conscious direction in evolution even human evolution. It is reasonable to say that wheat adapted in a way that allowed them to benefit from human cultivation. The adaptation was the result of a random mutation that happened to succeed wildly because of the presence of humans. Perhaps the same mutation had appeared several times earlier and never enjoyed much success.
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My favorite place for philosophy is at onlinephilosophyclub.com .
It can be hard to become a member there as they hold your first 20 posts for moderation or so but after that, it is great.
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Speaking of Eastern/Indian philosophy. I like this guy called Nāgārjuna. He somehow negates everything and at the end of it all your not even left time nor even with a nothing. Related to him there is Chandrakirti who has a “sevenfold reasoning” to logically walk through any concept or thing to discover that somehow the concept relies on things outside of “itself” to exist.
Re stoicism. I enjoyed Handbook for New Stoics. It’s 52 weeks of little activities, which seems like a more useful method for applying the ideas in your life than just reading. Also, 52 makes it easy to memorize the book’s concept by attaching them to a deck of cards.
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I know its been some time since you’ve written about Dov Gabbay I’m interested but can’t find a good book to buy, what book should I start reading?
I used to be really into contemporary Western analytic philosophy, but I’m very into Stoicism now and don’t keep up with analytical philosophy much.
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I have a bachelor’s in philosophy, if you’re just getting into it I highly recommend Plato’s Symposium. It’s a fun read 
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Hi pal. Well, he is quite prolific and has edited two leading handbooks, Handbook of Philosophical Logic and Handbook of the History of Logic. The problem is that these works are too expensive, so I think it would be a good idea to search for articles or papers published in free journals.
Yes, I’m very interested on it. I have read dozens of Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy articles at this point, maybe over a hundred. One thing that helps me a lot is annotating whatever interesting thought goes through my head. At this point my book backlog is maybe bigger than what I will be able to read in my life.
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Definitely yes, especially the “tensions” that often emerge between continental and analytic philosophy. There seems to be some resolution in recent years, but perhaps not as much as there could be. It will interesting to see where it goes.
And, of course, we are blessed to have Bruno and now Dicsone via the recently released book, The Hermetic Art of Memory. These are important philosophies with computational value that directly apply to both practical and speculative mnemonics and the nondual experiences they can create, which is one of the ideal outcomes of many philosophies around the world.
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