The Real You: Alan Watts
The late Alan Watts on personal identity and understanding our place in the Universe:
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Social Media and Social Good
Social media was a major force behind last year’s Arab Spring, after communities organized and overthrew tyrannical dictators, as well as last month’s riots across the Muslim world, after the trailer for The Innocence of Muslims circulated on the Internet. Like most technologies, social media can promote the good or accentuate the bad. But does…
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The Future Is Ours
This short video by Michael Marantz presents an optimistic and heroic vision of our future.
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Living With Disagreement
I’ve been noticing a disturbing disconnect at the heart of political discussions, particularly where religion is involved. The issue boils down to a fact and a question: People disagree. What shall we do about this?
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Discerning Purpose in Evolution
Recognizing the foundational role of purpose in the unfolding of evolution helps us see that the purpose of evolution is increasingly up to us.
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Envisioning a Civilization Recovery Plan
What knowledge of science, culture and civilization would you most want to pass on to the surviving humans as they faced the prospect of adapting to a new environment and rebuilding their lives over many generations?
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The Separation Challenge-Attachment Solution Hypothesis
Big History is an example of a new systems level in the complexification of intellectual history, in which new insights can emerge out of the attachment of separate visions.
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Humans Plus or Minus: An Introduction
Is transhumanism the great promise of technoscience or “the world’s most dangerous idea”? The debate is an extremely fruitful field for philosophical and theological inquiry.
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Apocalypse Not
I find the mass fears and popular mythologies unhelpful and dangerous. It is useful, however, to contemplate, and to some extent prepare for the “worst-case scenarios.”
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Big History Educational Resources
Photos and video from the inaugural conference of the International Big History Association.
