S-violation as individualization
Individualization and symmetry breaking connected to understand systems better. Continue Reading
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Intersubjectivity as the memetic proof of the truth
I introduced the concept of intersubjectivity in 2010 in Can we reach our consciousness. After the next two posts in 2011, Why Tolerance is not so Easy and Responsibility, I was somehow sure that the concept is so self-explanatory, that it needs no further… Continue Reading
Robots cannot de-toil humans
Prophecy of Ayn Rand comes more and more true. Leading industrialists of our era are more and more openly pleading for a future in which an individual would be subordinated to collective. Elon Musk with his prediction about universal basic… Continue Reading
Who decides about truth?
When it comes to the question of truth, it is by default most fruitful to use a statement of some creationist and then follow reactions of atheists. A post on a blog Ultimate Atheism Collection is a good example. The statement of… Continue Reading
The memetic argument for the sovereignty of the individual over collective
When we say that companies, brands, cities and states live, does this mean that they should express the same sovereignty as humans? If we say that companies live their own life, does that mean that they compete with individuals on… Continue Reading
Does America First lead to liberal society?
This post I originally wrote in January 2017, after the inaugural speech of Donald Trump. It was not about Donald Trump, and it still is not about him. I cannot say much about him since I know him only from… Continue Reading
The Price of the Value
There is no big deal to know that value cannot be quantified while the price, on the other hand, cannot be un-quantified. That the value of any item being exchanged among humans can not be defined objectively was so nicely… Continue Reading
Against Scientism
I find myself more and more baffled by a contemporary belief that science and scientific method promises the only correct answer about the reality we, humans, live in. Not only that belief in science as the only right machinery to… Continue Reading
Virtues and the State
Aristotle’s ethics is often taken as fundamental to any ethics that comes later. For the right reason. Temperance Let me resonate one of four Aristotles’ cardinal virtues, temperance. The other three being courage, practical wisdom and justice. There are many… Continue Reading
Liberal & conservative again
It amuses me, but at the same time makes me sad, that almost no one even thinks about an option that a liberal-conservative position about politics, human life and (or) evolution would be possible. It does not surprise me, that… Continue Reading