by Phil Braham | Dec 1, 2022 | Philosophy, Psychology, Science, The universe
Time Space Continuum I have discussed before how the universe is made up of more dimensions than we are usually aware of. We are aware of the three spatial dimensions, and of time but in the backwards direction only. That is not because of any inherent aspect of the...
by Phil Braham | Jun 27, 2021 | General, Psychology, Social commentary
Decisions – a fork in the road Many so-called ‘self-help gurus’ will tell you that making mistakes is part of life. You have to make a mistake in order to learn. In fact I recall a business investor who invested in startups saying that he was wary of...
by Phil Braham | Jun 11, 2021 | General, Psychology, Social commentary
Problem solving an impossible maze I read that a well know entrepreneur (I think it was Elon Musk) said that schools should teach problem solving. Well, schools nowadays teach some strange subjects and have moved away from the ‘old fashioned’ three...
by Phil Braham | Apr 20, 2021 | General, Psychology
This is a cat. All cats have fur. Therefore this has fur. There’s a view held by many so-called ‘rational’ people that the world works logically, and if we want to understand the world we must use logic (which is often confused with science). There are two kinds of...
by Phil Braham | Jan 21, 2021 | General, Psychology, Religion and mysticism, Science, The universe
Speeding up time There’s a perception that some people have that time is speeding up. That is, a minute now seems shorter than a minute, say, ten years ago. Sceptics of course debunk this claim as being ‘scientifically inaccurate’, but there is some evidence...
by Phil Braham | Dec 13, 2020 | General, Psychology, Social commentary
I was recently told by someone that had I looked at her profile I would have noticed her preferred pronouns that I should be using instead of using the words ‘she’ and ‘her’. What she didn’t realise was that it wasn’t that I didn’t know — it was that I didn’t care. Or...
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