Unconscious is structured like European Commission

Should Jacques Lacan still live, he would have paraphrased his statement that the unconscious is structured like a language, uttered in a lecture and printed in Écrits, he would have replaced »language« with »European Commission«. To understand this shift shaping… Continue Reading

Humans are irreducible due to our mortality

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

Pride and prejudice

Both hate speech and climate change panic share values of social constructivism. Both deny evolution as natural selection, both deny complexity that underlies not only evolution but all natural phenomena and both overestimate powers of human rationality. Social constructivism should thus be considered as major threat to human civilization at the moment. Continue Reading