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new
9y
Blockchain is the New Democracy
The democratic ideal of rule by the people is coming full circle. The direct democracy of 5th century BC Athens--the world's first--was an anomaly that nonetheless had a seminal effect on geopolitical
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new
9y
Sensay.it uses artificial Intelligence to match information seekers with other humans who are experts in any given space.
I really think the soon-to-be-realized Sensay.it conversational network is the killer app for messaging. Why? Because the intelligence and interactivity being built into Sensay is far superior and personal
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new
9y
Actual Human Beings Answer Your Questions on Sensay.it
What if you had a cross-platform utility giving you the power to choose an expert or even a confidant from among millions of knowledgeable people across virtually all of the 3 billion people on social
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new
9y
Evil Is Worth Studying
Our moral concepts are sometimes pushed away from completeness by virtue of the fact that most of the events in our personal lives tend to support the theory that there's a balance between good and evil
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new
9y
Machine Desire
What is the key feature of human learning? It is, I believe, the desire to learn. From a very young age, children are instinctively motivated to learn. Also, desire is often motivated by a payoff. My view
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new
9y
The Jungian "Shadow"
One of the most significant concepts to emerge from Jungian psychology--at least as useful as "introvert" and "extrovert"--is that of the "shadow." An individual's shadow
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fiftywords
9y
Grillithic
First, I leaped from rock to rock, counting them as I went. Then, I picked up a rock and smashed it against another to make it sharp. My ax helped me prepare my barbecue. All my family and friends love
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philosophy
9y
David Chalmers' "Hard Problem"
Animals can do what we do. They can use sign language, tools and their society is eerily similar to our own. But they are not conscious. They are not trying to solve David Chalmers' "hard problem;"
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politics
10y
The Ancient Greeks Speak on Trump
In humanity's first democracy, that of Athens in the fifth century BC, the role of the media fell to the playwrights. Aristophanes was the Greeks' Woodward and Bernstein. In his "Lysistrata"
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science
10y
The Mythologizing Function
Left to his own devices, man will take available facts and mythologize them into a belief system. Science is such a belief system, even though it has a rigorous basis in fact. These functions, mythologizing
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science
10y
Quantum Mechanics Provides Limits and Great Hope
One contribution of quantum science is we've found there are limits to the division of matter/energy and spacetime. But we've also found our ability to work with and even transform these base units is
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philosophy
10y
Evolution Provides an Example of a Changing System Like That of the Quantum
We are all used to seeing changes of state. When the state of a system changes; say, with an animal having offspring, there is no change in the system, only in the state of the system. But when that offspring
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new
10y
Is the Homunculus the Ultimate Fake News?
Before the discovery of evolution there were some strange theories about heredity. Few were as weird as perhaps the most prevalent, the theory of the homunculus. This is the idea that a fully articulated
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philosophy
10y
Man Is Too Full Of Himself Right Now
Man created God to help him process the unknown. We now have tools other than religion for this purpose; personal relationships are more information-rich, and science is providing more answers than ever
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psychology
10y
The Lens of the Individual
We have to learn to see the distortions brought about by the "lens" we use to see things: our own minds. This is quite difficult to achieve because when we look at our lens, we are using our
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philosophy
10y
The Tyranny of The Body
Our bodies are our albatrosses, our crosses to bear and ulitmately, our undoing. We all live in bodies that eat, sleep, have other functions and eventually die. This is inconvenient to say the least and
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psychology
10y
The Unknown and the Unknowable
The psyche can be occupied by symbols and archetypes that we are unaware of. Being undiscovered, they are free to affect our behavior unconsciously and therefore without our consent. Thus one of the goals
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new
10y
Consciousness
Why is something so common so hard to describe? Partly because it is so common. We're all "awake" most of the time. But wakefulness is not the equal of consciousness. I have had the fairly common
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new
10y
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steemsports
10y
Next to Bolt and Achilles, Miguel Indurain is the Greatest Athlete in the History of Man
Miguel Indurain--"Big Mig"--the Basque Spaniard who won five consecutive Tours de France in the early '90s, is by the standard of physical prowess one of the top few athletes in history. This
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