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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Thinking About Nothing
How can we truly understand the “something” that is our universe without considering other ways it could have been, and even the possibility that it might not have been at all?
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Aliens Among Us?
You can shift your frame of mind so everything you experience in daily life is like the discovery of aliens. You’re fully justified in treating every interaction with every part of the world with that same sense of wonder and amazement.
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The Value of a Cosmic Perspective
Insights from science and technology offer portals into this frame of mind. In the long run, this could be the most powerful role our scientific knowledge will play in the future of humanity.
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Untangling the Hard Problem of Consciousness
A feeling of alienation is a common reaction to modern scientific descriptions of the cosmos. As journalist Bryan Appleyard (1992) expresses it, “On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.” At the core of this reaction is the discrepancy between the inner world of our awareness and the outer world of our…