As this ought, or ought not, expresses some new relation or affirmation, ‗tis necessary that it shou'd be observ'd and explain'd' and at the same time that a reason should be given; for what seems altogether inconceivable, how this new relation can be a deduction from others, which are entirely different from it. Hume never actually asserted what has come to be called ‗Hume's Law': that you can...

Human beings are confronted by how things, including themselves, work and how they ought to work. Human beings are also confronted, relatedly, by movement and language. The purpose of this note is to suggest an objective physical base within which these philosophic, psychological, and physiological properties of complex systems can be anchored.

When the Internet was initially constructed it was a defacto playground for researchers. The research community built the Internet and refined it by monitoring traffic and tinkering with protocols and applications. The days of the Internet being a research sandbox are clearly over. Today, society at-large depends on the Internet as a crucial piece of infrastructure for communication and commerc...

In a real sense, all life is inter-related. All persons are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.—Martin Lu...