June 2019 Archives

Searching for The Outside of Your Brain

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

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.

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.

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.

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.)

Knowledge as you Know it Doesn’t Exist

By J M Landers on June 1, 2019June 1, 20192 Comments

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.