In 1974, the philosopher Robert Nozick came up with the idea of an ‘experience machine’, a thought experiment […]
Category Archive: Ideas
In his treatise on free will, philosopher Sam Harris claims that if an act is formulated in our […]
In previous centuries divisions of society were mended and band-aided by communal meeting areas: Churches, Synagogues, Mosques and […]
Reading the letters of old writers and poets from previous centuries, you get the sense that they knew […]
We are born without prejudice. Ask a baby if he hates any particular person and he will stare […]
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Due to evolution, when our enemy is hurt, we celebrate. When our enemy is killed, we chant in […]
It’s becoming increasingly difficult as time progresses for humanity to have any connection to nature. And almost to […]
In the late 1950s, Frederick Herzberg conducted surveys on what we now term “The Greatest Generation,” those who […]
The argument for perspective has won. No longer can we question what is wrong with life, the world […]
It is a simple matter to rank the empathy we feel for those around us. Consider the following: […]