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
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
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
It is not hard to see that I am allergic to some kinds of self-evidences. Why and why only to some of them? Self-evidences Human evolution and civilization rest on the ability, to internalize certain concepts (memes) as given. Should… Continue Reading
Animals should have more rights than states. Continue Reading
While there are so many proofs that animal and human behaviour is largely hardwired, there still lurks a question of learning. While it is true that we act faster than we think while confronted with certain danger, we still learn… Continue Reading
Brand is living complex system present on brains serving it as substrate. 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
A person on a picture is an essence of branding. A brand of a creature incorporated in the character on the picture, god Chamundi Mahavishnu, is detached from a physical body. Picture was taken years ago on some Kerala festival… Continue Reading
Yes. It is Brands that prove something in reality like that artificial intelligence is impossible. Let’s be clear about what is referred to as artificial intelligence and what is artificial intelligence. Neither definitions are static though. Nothing in memetic world… Continue Reading