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#mechanism

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“…primal cultures held animistic worldviews. They never separated mind and body; what we call “mind” permeated all things. …life was not mysterious—death was. Human societies built elaborate rituals around death because the disappearance of living presence was baffling. … Fast-forward to early-modern Europe. With the rise of mechanistic science, the polarity flips: death becomes the rule and life the anomaly that needs explaining. Something clearly shifted in humanity’s self-understanding.”
—Matthew Segall
https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/prehensions-propositions-and-the
#mind #body #life #death #mechanism #science
Footnotes2Plato · Prehensions, Propositions, and the Cosmological CommonsBy Matthew David Segall
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Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

Sharkey's Shootout's main toy, the Mystery eightball. It's a magnetic diverter that take a ball from the left ramp and diverts it to left or right. It can also hold the ball, while the mystery feature is running. It has a rotating disc inside with a decoder ring for opto switches so it knows which way it's pointing. During the gameplay it shows you the prize you won in the same fashion as the magic eightball toy.

#pinball#90spinball#mechanism
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Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

Big Guns' backbox bagatelle game sounded somehow off. I investigated and sure enough, all 4 bolts that hold the upkicker mechanism onto the light panel were loose, with two nuts missing completely.

After some cabinet bottom searching and Loctite later it works and sounds as it should.

#pinball#arcade#pinrepair
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Philo Sophies

The old and the new #mechanism - part 2
- Explanation attempts for the understanding of the #reductionistic and #positivistic world view -

In this 2nd part of the article, in my opinion, the #complexity of #biological #systems is taken into account and in this respect the #mereological #fallacy in the old #mechanistic #world #view, that the whole is always more than the sum of its parts, is referred to as a #construction #error in #reductionism.

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/2022

The old and the new #mechanism - part 2 - Explanation attempts for the understanding of the #reductionistic and #positivistic world view -
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Philo Sophies

The old and the new #mechanism - part 2

- Explanation attempts for the understanding of the #reductionistic and #positivistic #world #view -

The 2nd part of the article on the "old and new mechanism" published here was also kindly provided to me by Dr. Gregorio Demarchi of the Institute of #Philosophy of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena for publication on my site.

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/2022

The old and the new #mechanism - part 2 - Explanation attempts for the understanding of the #reductionistic and #positivistic #world #view -
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The modern mechanism that is assumed today (and in Bergson’s time) is, in a manner of speaking, a mutilated Cartesianism, or (seen from another perspective) a secularized version of Newtonian physics.
—William Barnard, Living Consciousness: The Metaphysical Vision of Henri Bergson
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Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

The Twilight Zone has so much cool stuff for a 90s pin I don't even know where to start, but this magnetic mini playfield has always amazed the players.

It has two player controllable pulsing magnets and the objective is to bounce the ball around to hit the scoring switches behind the rubbers and just before you run out of time, make the top shot to double the score and start a mode.

It's also used in one multiball mode, where the top exit scores the jackpot. You can get multiple balls in this thing at once!

Technically, for a mini playfield, it has a lot of stuff in it. It carries two big magnets, several controlled lights, couple of flashers, in addition to several micro and optical switches. It's also really heavy!

The underside is not bare when it's in the game, there's this cardboard-like cover preventing damage and short from the balls moving under it.

video.apz.fi/w/e7HpWfreTDBPoxx

PeerTubeThe Twilight Zone's mini playfieldBy apzpins
#pinball#arcade#mildlyinteresting
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Erik L. Midtsveen 🏴🏳️‍🌈

"We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most of us even being conscious of the monstrosity of the procedure. Hence we frequently deal with such matters with indifference and in cold blood as if we handled dead things and not the destinies of men."

— Rudolf Rocker

Image depicting a quote by Rudolf Rocker: "We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most of us even being conscious of the monstrosity of the procedure. Hence we frequently deal with such matters with indifference and in cold blood as if we handled dead things and not the destinies of men." — Rudolf Rocker
#RudolfRocker#AnarchoSyndicalist#AnarchoSyndicalism
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“Dynamism starts from the idea of voluntary activity, given by consciousness…: it has thus no difficulty in conceiving free force on the one hand and matter governed by laws on the other. Mechanism follows the opposite course. It assumes that the materials which it synthesizes are governed by necessary laws, and although it reaches richer and richer combinations, which are more and more difficult to foresee, and to all appearance more and more contingent, yet it never gets out of the narrow circle of necessity within which it at first shut itself up.”
—Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
#dynamism #mechanism
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Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

Sometimes you get progress and at times cheapening out backfires.

A lot of classic pins had their playfield slide along wooden rails for when you needed to rest it against the backbox. For some reason, Williams came up with a single hinge version around mid-80s, that caused the playfield to tilt so 1/3 of it was below the cabinet sides. Working on stuff around the back of the playfield was painful to a degree it was just easier to pull the whole playfield from the machine.

The sliding rails introduced in '92 was like a godsent for the people repairing pins. You could pull the playfield out and it'd rest on rails and you could lean it against the backbox at a sane height.

Naturally they tried to cheapen this out by getting rid of the nice sliding rail and just make it slide against grooves CNC'd into the cabinet wood, which was like worst of the two worlds. They must've gotten some feedback, as the next released game used the metal rails again!

video.apz.fi/w/xhtFGRwDLsYfVR5

PeerTubePlayfield rails in No FearBy apzpins
#pinball#arcade#mechanism
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