Month: September 2018

  • A new Approach to the Consciousness-Mind-Body Problem

    Modern theories of consciousness, or the ‘Mind-Body Problem’ are rather depressing, as I’ve written about this here. This is a new and totally original theory on consciousness which, when understood, could completely change our research into this area of philosophy. Anyone who thinks beyond what we may call the superficial level has probably at one time…

  • Left vs right and the third world war

    The terms left-wing or right-wing where it pertains to politics come from the French National Assembly that was set up after the revolution in the summer of 1789. The anti-royalist revolutionaries seated themselves to the left of the assembly, and the traditionalists seated themselves on the right. Nowadays the terms are used to describe a…

  • Discussing facts

    There was time, probably less than 10 or 15 years ago, where people used to present an idea for discussion. In articles, a particular point of view would be presented using a variety of supporting points, for example: Facts — statistics show that X is greater than Y Emotions — this young girl died because of such-and-such wasn’t implemented…

  • Being tolerant of intolerance

    The philosopher Karl Popper wrote about the paradox of tolerance. In a nutshell, if we allow people who are intolerant to have a full voice then they will overwhelm the tolerant, and in the end our freedom of expression will be extinguished. There’s another view: Anyone can be tolerant of what they agree with, it’s…

  • Groupthink

    More and more nowadays people identify with a group: LBGQ, Atheist, Christian, anti-trump, pro-Trump etc. The problem with this is that having identified with a group they have given up their own authenticity. I’ve seen may articles, for instance on Quora, where people who identify as Atheist talk about experiences they have had and then write…

  • Guilt. And why we should do good things

    Some years ago I saw an interview with a Jewish (or lapsed Jew to be more specific) professor where he talked about why he became an Atheist. He came from a very strict Jewish household, I think his father was a cantor at the local synagogue, but questioned his faith when he was 13 — around the…

  • Some questions for Atheists

    Question 1: How old were you when you decided that you weren’t going to believe in what you don’t understand? If you had attempted to explain heavier than air flying, or radio communication to someone in the 12th century you would undoubtably be met with disbelief, and your attempts at an explanation would probably just…