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Means and Ends: Opening a can (and can’t) of worms.
Q: Why do dogs lick their genitals? A: Because they can. As with all jokes, this one is a...
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The Loss of European Spiritual Identity – III
What is this European original foundational spiritual idea that precedes even Christianity? Simply this: a commitment to theoria, the...
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Mathematics and the Dynamic Aspects of the Physical World
The physical world is throbbing with activity. Nothing ever remains the same. Change is the one pervasive feature in...
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Meta-cons: Righteous indignation as a con about conning
A couple of weeks ago Jared Diamond, of Guns, Germs and Steel fame, had an article in the New...
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The Loss of European Spiritual Identity – II
In his Philosophical Discourse on Modernity Jurgen Habermas attributes the failure of the Enlightenment to the intrusion of foreign...
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‘From Helpless to Selfless’ − the disruptive nature of papa�ca and Automatic Thoughts (Cognitive Therapy) − A Comparison
Aaron Beck met the Dalai Lama in June 2005 in Gˆteborg Convention Centre in Sweden for a dialogue on...
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Current Knowledge on the Genetic Mediation of Self-Transcendence and Spirituality
In 1902, William James in The Varieties of Religious Experience wrote, “he unreasoned and immediate assurance is the deep...
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Qualitative and Quantitative
When we say that the sea is blue or that a person is tall, our description is qualitative. We...
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The Loss of European Spiritual Identity
The renowned Church historian Ernst Troeltsch once boldly declared that Europe had ceased to be Christian in the 18th...
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SCIBIT: Building a Scientifically Coherent Integrated Bottom-Up Information Theory
As you know, when I’m not juicing the details of everyday interaction to extract the basic dance moves people...