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Searching for The Outside of Your Brain

Searching for The Outside of Your Brain

By J M Landers on June 17, 2019June 17, 2019Leave a Comment

Artwork: Imagination | Mehdinom

I listened to an amazing episode of Radio Lab the other day. It was about this device that is being tested on blind people to help them ‘see’ again. With their tongues.

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God, Science and The Fight for Meaning

God, Science and The Fight for Meaning

By J M Landers on June 5, 2019June 5, 2019Leave a Comment

Artwork: Death and Life | Gustav Klimt

Science has a knack for draining all of the beauty out of things. Or at least that seems to be the general consensus among people with the fuzziest of feelings.

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The Emerging Science of Emergence

The Emerging Science of Emergence

By J M Landers on June 4, 2019June 4, 2019Leave a Comment

Artwork: Sun | Edvard Munch

It’s not hard to find a half-baked YouTube video about emergence. They are out there. And sadly they are often much more interesting than any footage of actual experts discussing the matter.

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No One Knows What Cognitive Dissonance Means

No One Knows What Cognitive Dissonance Means

By J M Landers on June 2, 2019June 2, 2019Leave a Comment

Artwork: Vampier | Edvard Munch

There are a number of things I find very frustrating. I have issues. But one of the things I find most mind-numbingly blood-nosingly irritating is concepts like Cognitive Dissonance (hereafter CD.)

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Knowledge as you Know it Doesn’t Exist

Knowledge as you Know it Doesn’t Exist

By J M Landers on June 1, 2019June 1, 2019Leave a Comment

Artwork: A Philosopher Lecturing… | Joseph Wright of Derby

Socrates’ epic origin story began in Delphi where he was visiting the Oracle; a temple who’s priestesses were said to have supreme knowledge of both the past and future.

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Why Does Debate Never Go Anywhere?

Why Does Debate Never Go Anywhere?

By J M Landers on May 30, 2019June 1, 2019Leave a Comment

Artwork: A Theological Debate | Eduard Frankfort

The word debate is generally seen in a positive light nowadays. Especially on Facebook. People are more likely to hold it up as a shinning example of what we’re not doing than to critique it.

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Can we Stop Whining About Freedom of Speech?

Can we Stop Whining About Freedom of Speech?

By J M Landers on May 29, 2019June 1, 2019Leave a Comment

Artwork: Freedom of Speech | Norman Rockwell

White people shouldn’t say the N word. They can. I have said it before and I’m white. But it just kind of sets a bad tone. It’s rude. But there is no law saying that we can’t use the word.

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Nobody Has Any Idea What They Mean by Freewill Anymore

Nobody Has Any Idea What They Mean by Freewill Anymore

By J M Landers on May 25, 2019June 1, 2019Leave a Comment

Artwork: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog | Caspar David Friedrich

Once upon a time the Earth was flat, everything was made of the four elements and people were little glowing balls of light trapped in their bodies. Probably somewhere in your Pituitary gland.

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You Don’t Get Plato’s Cave

You Don’t Get Plato’s Cave

By J M Landers on May 25, 2019June 1, 2019Leave a Comment

Artwork: Das Gastmahl Nach Platon | Anselm Feuerbach

The vast majority of people who talk about Plato’s Cave allegory have no idea what it was actually meant to convey. In case you haven’t heard of it before here is how it’s first introduced:

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Jake Paul Ambushed Someone, Poorly

Jake Paul Ambushed Someone, Poorly

By J M Landers on May 22, 2019June 1, 2019Leave a Comment

Artwork: Jake Paul | Marieke

Some people take YouTube drama pretty seriously. It’s sort of like those celebrity gossip magazines that used to focus on who was cheating on who. I mean they’re still out there, they just don’t have as big an audience.

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