Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Do we have an appetite for transcendence?

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I've been working on a long rambling post on finding meaning in the flow and evolution of the cosmos rather than in the varied anthropom...
Friday, December 26, 2025

What are humans for? - AI Forces a Question We’ve Been Dodging

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.  AI Is Already Fusing With Us — The Only Question Is How The argument about whether AI will enhance or diminish our our humanity usually ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

The Modernity Machine

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I want to pass on to readers this Venkatesh Rao substack essay that summarizes what his book club has learned in the past year:  The Modern...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Dangerous Ideas.......

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Deric's MindBlog is almost 20 years old. Its first post appeared on Feb. 8, 2006. The assertions and ideas described in that original po...
Friday, October 10, 2025

The 2025 Ig Nobel prizewinners in full

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 A clip from the Chris Simms Nature Magazine article LITERATURE The late physician William Bean, for persistently recording and analysing th...
Monday, October 06, 2025

Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America

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 A very revealing piece of work from Holiday et al.  Their abstract: Affective polarization is a corrosive force in American politics. Wh...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Value, Purpose, Meaning, Futures

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Value, purpose, and meaning vary between  religions and cultures, and are best viewed as emergent properties supporting altruistic behavior...