The word
How the word lost its power and regain it. Continue Reading
Natural selection
Emergence
Emergence is natural consequence of complex system’s internal dynamics. Continue Reading
Nature or Nurture
The long-standing debate about whether nature or nurture shapes our faith is over. Culture is the product of nature. Continue Reading
Free will
A man has will because he and his will is not located in brains (only). Continue Reading
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
Let us get rid of politicians and bankers!
Dreams of man living in poverty, being ameba, not needing shoes. Continue Reading
The Crisis and the “Crisis”
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
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