This morning I watched an interesting video on TED.com about experience and memory. The founder of behavioral economics, Daniel Kahneman, gave a far to short twenty-minute talk on how we as human beings are essentially divided into two entities, our “experiencing selves” and our “remembering selves.…
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Experience vs Remembering Experience
Posted March 1, 2010
What would Aristotle do?
Posted February 25, 2010
The other day while having coffee with a friend he joked that I needed a bracelet that stated, “What would Aristotle do?” Laughing at the time, I started to seriously think about this little statement yesterday by re-reading some small sections of Ethics. In doing so I realized Aristotle gives no es…
The Divided Soul
Posted January 23, 2010
We often pride ourselves on our species being self aware to a degree that no other known life form has achieved. Without a question, this has allowed humanity to achieve many great things. But, I can’t help but wonder if being self-consciousness and undergoing self-examination is done so at the expe…
Thoughts on Logic
Posted January 20, 2010
The problem with atheists is that they take delight in their leap of faith being more ‘logical’ than theists and yet fail to admit that they are making the exact same leap.
It is interesting that the German who questioned the foundation of logical thought built his entire argument with it.
Cont…
Thoughts From The Morning After
Posted December 6, 2009
I have almost finished Animals and Ethics by Angus Taylor; a very good read that covers almost entirely the debate about humankinds treatment of animals. One question that has presented itself through out the text to me is what is the source of my being wishing to extend freedom, liberty, and self-a…
The Cave
Posted October 25, 2009
I stumbled across this video earlier this weekend that is a fairly good presentation of the allegory of the cave put forward by Plato in his work 'The Republic.' It can be a hard idea to wrap the mind around and this video simplifies the concept while staying true to Plato's sentiments.
Utility vs Function
Posted October 19, 2009
As promised, this is the first in a series of posts attempting to create some sort of world view out of the thought experiment I described in the previous post. This post will deal with hedonism - specifically utilitarianism. There is two reasons for why I will be focussing on utilitarianism. The fi…
Desire for Life
Posted October 15, 2009
This is somewhat of an odd post as it is a lot more personal than usual. The past several months have been very interesting, as I have been contemplating the potential reality of a meaningless universe. A few weeks ago this thought process intensified as a few very independent factors merged all at …
An Examination
Posted September 22, 2009
“Considered from the point of gadgetry, the United States in the year 2000 will be more like the United States in the year 1967 than different.”
- Daniel Bell (1967)
How different has technology made our lives? Has the affect been negative of positive? Both? How will tech…
Respect
Posted September 18, 2009
Machiavelli boldly states in his text the prince that it is better to be feared than loved. His logic for this is that love is dependent on the giver, while fear is dependent on the producer. To put this statement into general scenarios illuminates it greatly.
The scenario of love: Person A loves p…
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