There are two triggers for this post: The first comes from the straw man argument against capitalism as a system that assumes humans are homo economicus. This post will show that homo economicus and its rationality can be embedded in… Continue Reading
In response to the apparent selfishness dominating evolution on earth, as proposed by Charles Darwin (evolution by natural selection), various theories arose that distinguish animals from humans, altruism referring only to humans. Namely, they were directed against mankind’s illusion that… Continue Reading
Memetics was introduced by Richard Dawkins in Selfish Gene the last chapter back in 1976. For a quite unclear reason, Dawkins himself never developed the theory further. Susan Blackmore, Kate Distin, Robert Aunger and Daniel Dennett are rare few that… Continue Reading
It was autumn 2016 when European Union opened CEFTA agreement and at the same time also CETA trade agreement with Canada. NAFTA as a most noticeable USA multilateral trade agreement was under discussion from the very beginning in 1998. In… Continue Reading
It all changed overnight with coronavirus entering the western hemisphere. Literary. While we were attending sports events, gyms, operas and shopping malls yesterday freely, we are today in-home quarantine, healthy or sick. For most of us, measures taken by various… 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
In his original book, From Bacteria to Bach and Back, Daniel Dennett closes a discussion with Steven Pinker whether memes constitute essential ingredients of culture (Dennett) or not (Pinker). Pinker claim is that since culture is intelligently designed, it does… Continue Reading
While attending Bled Strategic Forum this year, Josep Borell, present foreign minister of Spain and most possible future EU foreign representative, made clear statement to slovenian media: Europe needs unity to become third largest global economic power. Strong and appealing… 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
On the day that I was about to get last pages of Brandlife edited, Friday November 13th 2015, couple of terrorists took 129 lives in 6 simultaneous attacks in Paris. For those familiar with my branding conceptualization it is at… Continue Reading