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
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
The poem in praise of Dante. It should be clear by now, by six or even more millennia of daily comprehension of what is “us” and what is out, of what is wits and what is all about. It should… Continue Reading
We’ll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow old. Charles Kennedy The presumption that youth is liberal/progressive and that men get more conservative with age is misleading. It is a result of… 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
Following the overload of reflections on Corona crisis, I cannot but notice notorious miscomprehension of the term crisis. This post intends to clarify the crisis from the viewpoint of evolution, evolutionary biology, complexity theory and memetics since the crisis is… Continue Reading
All posts on »The Order of Freedom« are provocations to some degree, but this one is going to go even further in this respect. What if contemporary science proves beyond reasonable doubt the foundations of mysticism? What if science is… Continue Reading
This column was triggered by responses to my Friday the thirteenth tweet, which read: We are facing a very simple dilemma: whether to join England and its instinct to reject all forms of collectivism, or to German collectivism, whose end… Continue Reading