Category Archives: Philosophy, Science & Religion
What Drives Us From Within?
This is a very large question, and depending on how many people you ask, you will get as many answers that might or might not be in agreement with each other. In addition, not everyone has a clear answer, and … Continue reading
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Language and the Natural World
According to linguistic anthropologists Homo sapiens developed a capacity for language between 100,000 and 30,000 years ago. Opinions will vary as to how the capacity developed but it seems likely that it was the result of an ongoing evolutionary process … Continue reading
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Tagged consciousness, Goethe, language, linguistic entities, mental world, nature of the world, physical world, Schopenhauer, the world as idea
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Homo Ignoramus
In as much as a dog cannot get beyond being a dog in terms of how it behaves and interacts with the world, similarly, when it comes to human beings – Homo sapiens -we cannot get beyond ourselves in the … Continue reading
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Tagged evolution of humanoids, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalis, homo sapiens
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A Defective Species
“I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough … Continue reading
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Absurdity and the Meaning of Life
French author and 1957 Nobel laureate Albert Camus once wrote: Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. When I read this the first time I wasn’t quite … Continue reading
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Tagged absurdity of life, Albert Camus, meaning, meaninles, Nietzsche, Viktor Frankl
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An Existential Disconnect
In Franz Kafka’s (very) short 1908 story “The Passenger” he writes: I am standing on the platform of the tram and I am entirely uncertain as to my place in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even … Continue reading
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Tagged evolution, Existential disconnect, Franz Kafka, human history, justification, The Passenger
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Is There a Point to the Universe?
“The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. … “So says renowned physicist and Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg in his 1977 book “The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe)” In … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, cosmology, creation, evolution, homo sapiens, human race, Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Popper, meaning of life
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An Uncertain Future
Given what we think we know about the age of the universe, planet earth and the myriad of creatures that have and are continuing to inhabit it since life first appeared, we have arrived only recently as a species uniquely … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmos, evolution, future
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On the Nature of Reality
Simply put, reality is experiencing the world in real-time, the here and now and “the place” where we interact with it. It is the state of things as they are when we encounter them, as opposed to how they may … Continue reading
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On The Nature of Consciousness
Somehow, our consciousness is the reason the universe is here. (Sir Roger Penrose) So, what is consciousness? Consciousness is a way of being in the world that appears to go beyond any known physical properties in the material universe, … Continue reading
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