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
“Virtual” has had the meaning of “being something in essence or effect, though not actually or in fact” since the mid-1400s.[1] The term “virtual” has been used in the computer sense of “not physically existing but made to appear by software” since 1959. Wikipedia… Continue Reading
It is worth to check dictionaries from time to time. While contemporary Cambridge dictionary states for “liberal”: respecting and allowing many different types of beliefs or behaviour: and all others go into the same direction; quite a different story happens… 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
Science, branding, policy-making and leadership share a common methodology. I can imagine such hypothesis should be at first taken as not only overambitious but outrageous as well. But I go even further. I claim that only after we take initial… 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
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
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