by Phil Braham | Aug 27, 2018 | General, Philosophy, Religion and mysticism, Social commentary, The universe
Any study of modern theories of philosophy of mind makes for rather depressing reading. Modern philosophers are of the view that the mind is not separate from the body and that our intuitive feeling that the mind is something apart the brain is misleading. Some of...
by Phil Braham | Aug 21, 2018 | General, Psychology
People use intelligence wrongly. They push their intellect in front of them and use it to look ahead and predict or plan what will happen and what they are going to do. It’s rarely correct. If you look at what you predict and what actually happens you will find that...
by Phil Braham | Aug 20, 2018 | General, Psychology
Do you do things that you don’t want to do? For instance you may smoke or eat too much, you want to exercise more or you have other habits that you think are bad. If you are a smoker for instance, it is as if there is a part of you that wants to smoke and a part of...
by Phil Braham | Aug 20, 2018 | General, Psychology
Politicians often say that they are ‘concerned’ about an incident. This concern is often political speak and means that they haven’t done anything about it and don’t intend to, but they don’t want to convey the impression that they don’t care. This syndrome is not...
by Phil Braham | Aug 20, 2018 | Atheism, General, Scepticism, Social commentary
There is a view which is expounded, predominantly by Atheists, that science is objective and impartial. I was told by a member of a skeptics association that peer review guaranteed that science was impartial. Apparently Richard Feynman said that Philosophy...
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