intellect
Insightful post about reason, abstract thinking, and science, highlighting gifted science fiction influencers.
Have I learned anything yet?
Why? Let me begin by asking a question. Can you be yourself if you feel that someone is looking over your shoulder all the time? When you are certain over many years, that the one looking over your shoulder, doesn't like the way you think.
By Howard Titman5 years ago in Futurism
Discomfort & Intolerance
To paraphrase a line from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, science is the study of fact; not truth. If it’s truth that one is interested in, there are numerous podcasts pertaining philosophy and theology on Spotify. However, what does a scientist do when the person who writes their checks is looking for only a certain kind of fact? Let’s say, for example, that there is a man named Joe. Joe is a learned archeologist during a time of renewed public interest in Joe’s particular field of research. New university chairs are being endowed, new museums are being opened, the older museums are receiving an increase of funding, archeological sites are becoming popular tourist attractions, multiple books and documentaries are being released to raise awareness about important local history. Yet, all that Joe has to do in order to partake in this paradise of higher learning, is to put his soul up for sale. This fictitious conundrum was exactly what the German academic community was faced with during the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. It’s efforts created a Frankenstien-esc monstrosity of pseudoacademia and was used to justify their political agenda of ignorance, bigotry, racism, ethnic superiority, and genocide; only to have it’s methods continue on into the modern day (in a way which may be difficult to recognize at first glance).
By Jacob Herr5 years ago in Futurism
Is Human Identity really positive for the World?
We may have advanced in our understanding of Identity, with branches of studies like Philosophy and Psychology deriving many concepts and logics of Identity. But with all our understanding of our Self Identity and Social Identity, is our Identity positive for our world?
By Karan Thapa5 years ago in Futurism
Specialist And Generalist Knowledge: Get The Best of Both Worlds
“The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice,” Brian Herbert. During evolution, several species developed different survival strategies. Some became more generalists and others more specialists.
By Sigmund Carlson5 years ago in Futurism
To Understand Descartes
To understand Descartes’ Meditations, one must be aware of the time period that he wrote these philosophy analyses. He sought to undermine Aristotelian thought (the majority of knowledge comes from the senses). While he, on the other hand, unfolds his own assertion that knowledge comes from the mind. In the first and second meditations he thoroughly discards all belief that could be doubted and thus comes to the conclusion that thought is the essential action that allows and determines the world around us. In other words, we must know more about our mind than the world around us, rather than analyzing the world. He also proves why one must analyze the mind and how one could do this.
By Katelind Sky5 years ago in Futurism
Everything you know is wrong. (Part 1)
What if everything you'd ever been told was a lie? Have you ever wondered to yourself what 'all this' (life) is really about and how the universe works? Suppose I told you you can create the life of your desires, no matter what that is? Just by reading this article, your life will change dramatically for the better. Today you start your awakening process . But don't just accept everything you're told by ANYONE- do your own research and decide for yourself. Before I start it's important to have an open mind and no ego for only that is capable of expanding its consciousness. It's vital we accept that, perhaps we don't know everything there is to know. As Socrates said "Wisdom is knowing how little we know."
By Mark Davies6 years ago in Futurism
Randomness, and its omnipresence in everyday life
What is randomness? Everyone has experienced randomness in many different situations in life. This could be when playing a board game, looking at radioactive isotopes, or tossing a coin. Random events occur all of the time whether we notice them or not and influence the outcomes of nearly everything we do. Some "random" events can be predicted if you know enough details. For example, you could theoretically predict if a coin will land on heads or tails if you knew enough facts like the speed the coin was flipped and the rate the coin was spinning (well until it hits the floor) (Matthews, 2020). However, some things are truly random and there is no way to calculate their outcomes regardless of what you know. Finding random events in board games is relatively easy but finding them in real life is a much harder task. Differentiating between what is random and what is predictable is important and could save you time, money, and even help you better understand the world.
By Ethan Terris6 years ago in Futurism
