There is only one reason why it is worth reading or writing books and articles about “better management of life. Let me try to explain. First of all: avoid gurus like Tonny Robbins. They are funny, and they might be… Continue Reading
Robert Nozick famous second part of his first chapter Metaphysics in his Philosophical Explanations (1981) reads: “Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing”. Though Nozick Ethics and Political philosophy are very powerful and compelling today, his Metaphysics stumbles due to times when… Continue Reading
Moral dilemmas used to be safely pinned to philosophy for more than 6000 years. What I mean with the expression »safely pinned«? As an issue of philosophy and more specifically, moral philosophy, it stayed valid and crucial for the reason… Continue Reading
The recent discovery published in BioScience by a group of scientists seems to add evidence for actions to be taken to prevent human influence on global warming. The article elaborates evidence that reservoirs created by dams are an important source of… Continue Reading
I wrote the previous post about wisdom for a couple of reasons: As a strong supporter of 280 characters TW messages I do at the same time fight against self-evidence. Self-evidence is a direct result of “short reasoning”. Short reasoning is not… Continue Reading
First thesis: As already explained under all “meme” tags and especially in this post, memes form THE unique human environment that follows the same replication and evolution principles as genes within genetic evolution. That memes replicate in more Lamarckian (inheritance of… Continue Reading
Science, branding, policy-making and leadership share a common methodology. I can imagine such hypothesis should be at first taken as not only overambitious but outrageous as well. But I go even further. I claim that only after we take initial… Continue Reading
When Slavoj Žižek said to The Spectator that Coronavirus gives a new chance to Communism, he uttered a virus that I have to challenge. Of course, I don’t mean the old-style Communism. By Communism, I mean simply what the World… Continue Reading
It is commonly accepted that we do not have reliable records from palaeolithic or before. While fossil research based on mitochondrial ancestry now pushes the ascent of homo sapiens some 300.000 years back from now with speculations that it could… Continue Reading
While we know with highest possible certainty what is engagement on biological level, level of nature (gene interaction and replication), it seems that we do not know exactly what are mechanisms on the cultural/memetic level, level of human nurture. I… Continue Reading