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50 Ways to Live On Your Own Terms
1. Stop consuming caffeine
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Why You Feel the Urge to Jump
Have you ever stood in a high place and felt the urge to jump?
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The Spiritual, Reductionist Consciousness of Christof Koch
What the neuroscientist is discovering is both humbling and frightening him. By Steve Paulson.
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Descartes was wrong
‘A person is a person through other persons.’ By Abeba Birhane.
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Is Matter Conscious?
Why the central problem in neuroscience is mirrored in physics. By Hedda Hassel Mørch.
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The Tyranny of Simple Explanations
The history of science has been distorted by a longstanding conviction that correct theories about nature are always the most elegant ones. By Philip Ball. (Aug. 11, 2016)
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57 Years Apart - A Boy And a Man Talk About Life
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Dreaming Outside Our Heads
Sooner or later any theory of consciousness must address this question: How can it be that during sleep, but very occasionally in waking moments too, we have experiences that have nothing to do with the world immediately around our bodies? By Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks.
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Is Quantum Theory About Reality or What We Know?
Does the quantum state ultimately represent some objective aspect of reality, or is it a way of characterizing something about us, namely, something about what some person knows about reality? By James Owen Weatherall.
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The Multiverse As Muse
German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, turns Leibniz’s argument for “the best of all possible worlds” on its head by proposing that we instead live in “the worst of all possible worlds.”
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Song of Myself
We’re still feeling the aftershocks of the existentialist earthquake. Roger Scruton reviews Sarah Bakewell’s ‘At the Existentialist Café.’
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What Plato knew about behavioural economics. (A lot)
How much did Plato know about behavioural economics and cognitive biases? Pretty much everything, it turns out. By Nick Romeo.
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What Is Reflective Reasoning? | Nick Byrd
Last week I was talking about intuition. I think of intuition as — among other things — an unconscious and automatic reasoning. The opposite of that would be a conscious and deliberative reasoning. We might call that reflective reasoning. In this post I want to talk about reflective reasoning. How does it work? And why does it work? And — spoiler alert — why does it sometimes not work?
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Expert Asserts That Universal Basic Income Would Eliminate Poverty
Rutger Bregman, a basic income advocate gave a TED Talk on Universal Basic Income and how pulling people out of poverty will give them more choice in life.
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What I Learned From Social Media About the State of Philosophy
A couple of months ago, I wrote this blog post about the fear (mostly felt by philosophers) that philosophy was disappearing from public debate. I posted it on Reddit – an online space for public debate – and it got the strongest response out of anything I’ve ever written.
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Should Philosophy be Taught as a Core Subject at Schools
AC Grayling argues why philosophy should be adopted as a core subject. Plus philosophical questions you can pose to primary school children. The literal meaning of philosophy is ‘love of wisdom’ – an inspiring but unhelpful fact. A far better definition is ‘careful enquiry’, with no limit on what the enquiry is about. In ancient times, it included everything we now think of as science, history, ethics, politics, sociology and more.
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What is a cult?
Cults are exploitative, weird groups with strange beliefs and practices, right? So what about regular religions then?
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Surfing with Singer
Philosopher Peter Singer puts a disturbingly simple case for altruism. Too simple, perhaps?
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'A reckoning for our species': the philosopher prophet of the Anthropocene
The long read: Timothy Morton wants humanity to give up some of its core beliefs, from the fantasy that we can control the planet to the notion that we are ‘above’ other beings. His ideas might sound weird, but they’re catching on
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Nihilist Start-Up Haikus
I am freemium – I have a proof of concept – My life is on brand
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