A friend and I fr0m philosophy grad school days at the University of Oregon are exploring the question: Is the human brain exapted for insight? ‘Exaptation’ is a word coined…
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The word ‘decimation’ has its roots in the brutal Roman practice of punishing military units guilty of cowardice, mutiny or desertion by putting to death every tenth man. A UN…
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To most Americans, metaphysics, if they give any thought to the subject at all, appears as it did to the first pragmatist philosopher, William James: “As in the night all…
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Few would argue that there is a political ‘failure of imagination’ in the Western world. Without putting imagination first (contemplative insight is primary), imagination, whether in art or politics, obviously…
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Einstein famously said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” A corollary of this truth is that we cannot look to the same…
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If the last year has demonstrated anything, it is that the Enlightenment ideals of reason and human rationality cannot hold sway over the chaos of belief, irrationality and tribalism. But…
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The consensus at present among astronomers and cosmologists is that the universe began with a Big Bang and will end in a Big Chill.
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World News – Time travel has long been a staple of science fiction books and movies. But will we ever be able to build a time machine and beam ourselves backward…