Radical Enlightenment Takes Power in America
December 26, 2018
With the American Revolution, the Enlightenment took power. … More Radical Enlightenment Takes Power in America
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Philip K. Dick: Schizophrenia and the I Ching
November 9, 2018
Sometimes our minds are too open. … More Philip K. Dick: Schizophrenia and the I Ching
Can We Think without Words?
October 15, 2018
Are language and thought one and the same? Can we only know reality through the medium of language? Donald Fagen, one of the geniuses behind Steely Dan, in his autobiography Elegant Hipsters, traces entire subcultures spawned by Count Korzybski’s General Semantics. The basic idea of the book is succinctly summarized by Steven Pinker in The Language Instinct: “General … More Can We Think without Words?
What Is?
October 2, 2018
To ask this question deeply is to step into quicksand from which there may be no return for those who sincerely ask it. You may, for the rest of your life, be consumed with trying to answer it. Nothing will ever seem to be the same again. Just look at the Pied Pipers of the … More What Is?