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  • Influential few predict behaviour of the many : Nature News & Comment

    Influential few predict behaviour of the many : Nature News & Comment

      Further tools for writing the book of life. To completely understand how a living organism works one would have to take it apart, the great physicist Niels Bohr once observed — but then the organism would certainly be dead1. In general, systems of high complexity, including living things but…

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    Originally posted on fauxphilnews: Members of the Moral Philosophy Research Group hard at work A previously unrecognized moral principle was discovered last week after ethicists at the University of Mesa realized that they would rather kill an old lady’s cat than a young girl’s puppy. The principle of moral naivete, as it…

  • Debt and the Indebted Person

    Debt and the Indebted Person

    What is it about “you must repay your debts” that allows even the best of people to justify the worst human actions? It is very much worth your time to at least listen to the 65 minute lecture below by anthropologist & author David Graeber. My buddy-friend-guy, Christopher P., has…

  • Physicist’s Famous Principle Shown To Work In ‘Macro’ World Too

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 02/14/2013 02:26 PM EST on LiveScience They knew it was true, but now they’ve shown it: Scientists have demonstrated that the uncertainty principle, one of the most famous rules of quantum physics,… See on www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Originally posted on sittinginthewoods: All stories are interpretations, and history is no different.  Every step I’ve taken in my coming and going within this plane of existence rests upon my own interpretations of experience and the collective interpretations that we call reality.  It’s all part of some grand narrative, where…

  • Originally posted on coromandal: The great economist James K. Galbraith describes two factors that contribute to financial euphoria – the special fiscal  insanity that has led to more than one collapse of markets, the most spectacular being the great collapse of 2008. The first contributing factor, in paragraph no. 1…

  • The Struggle for Susiya

    In this context of legal impunity for settler attacks and military-sponsored land theft, Susiya’s villagers, often accompanied by Palestinian, Israeli and international activists, have maintained a consistent pulse of resistance, always rebuilding the homes from the ruins left behind and demanding a modicum of justice despite the prevalence of its…

  • Originally posted on Evolutionary Landscapes: The Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness Forum  just published their recording of Ursula King’s lecture on Teilhard’s evolutionary mysticism. A fascinating, two-part talk on the man’s life, passion, and most of all: spirit. King is a brilliant academic and theologian, well established in both the US…

  • Tree Sitting – A Rebuttal to Clay Shirky

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Clay Shirky observed at the Awl last week that he and I disagree over whether the trend toward MOOCs in higher education is reversible—he says no, and he says that I say yes—and I suppose he’s right, so far as that goes. But I don’t think…

  • Translation of a beautiful poem with comments by my new brother in Christ Jason. Enjoy!

  • History of Philosophy 115 – Me, Myself and I: Augustine on Mind and Memory (Podcast)

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Augustine explores the nature of the human mind in order to establish its similarity to, and dissimilarity from, the divine Trinity.   Source : historyofphilosophy.net See on www.historyofphilosophy.net

  • Daodejing 22

    #22* Sacrifice the part & save the whole. Bend that to make this straight. Hollow that to make this full. That withers, this blooms. Lose that, gain this. Determined then, confused now. Thus the sages insist on the one as archetype of everything. Don’t show off, and you will be…

  • Daodejing 21

    #21 Great excellence relies only on the Great Way (DAO) How does Great Way make the way? Indefinetely & vaguely. Though indefinite & vague, there are images. Though indefinite & vague, things do happen. Too small to see & too deep to fathom, Yet there are concentrations of life-force. These…

  • Originally posted on sittinginthewoods: The birds may sing their presence, the squirrels may chatter, and my breath may blow steadily across this landscape, but all of these songs and motions bespeak a profound silence, a deep collecting of all time where the songs, the words, and the breath hold still,…

  • Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its Head

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A hairdresser at a Baltimore salon has stuck a pin in the long-held assumptions among historians about the hairstyles of ancient Rome and Greece. See on online.wsj.com