It is all right for the mayflies. It is all right if you know you only have another thirty or fourty years. You can afford to think small. You can find it easy to imagine that you are a fixed thing, inside a fixed nation, with a fixed flag, and a fixed outlook. You can …
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Is Transhumanism Very Human?
"Transhumanism, social and philosophical movement devoted to promoting the research and development of robust human-enhancement technologies. Such technologies would augment or increase human sensory reception, emotive ability, or cognitive capacity as well as radically improve human health and extend human life spans. Such modifications resulting from the addition of biological or physical technologies would be …
A Path…
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Spreading the Word: Midlife Crisis
For this weekend, I share with you a lecture by Professor Mark Jackson on midlife crisis. It is an interesting take on this now so broadly used concept. In the lecture, Prof Jackson looks into the roots of the idea and discovers that they are interwoven with both biology and culture. Link to the video: …
Hermann Hesse’s “Siddhartha” on Seeking and Finding
Towards the end of his life, the main protagonist of Hermann Hesse's novel Siddhartha, the wise man, shared one of his thoughts with a friend: “When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because …
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Life Path Choice
Do we always choose the road or does it also choose us? I mean a metaphorical road, a life path. Is our relationship with the path more like with a person or an object? Photo by Karsten Würth on Unsplash If I want an object, I can go and get it, provided there are no …
Know Yourself
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Spreading the Word: Love Yourself
This Friday I share with you an inspiring short video on the importance of loving yourself. Earlier this week I posted a thought that came to my mind recently. You know how it is, you think about something without even realizing you are thinking about it and then, suddenly, a thought forms in your mind. …
It’s Content That Fills, Not Form
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Being Great to be Good Enough? Philosophical Exploration
Is 'good' good enough? Or is 'great' needed to qualify for being good enough? Although it sounds absurd if taken from a purely logical perspective, it is yet another proof of our inherent complexity that often contains outright contradictions. I know what it feels like to expect and demand greatness from myself simply to feel …
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