A blissful state - the feeling that everything just works and falls into place effortlessly. A state of creative flow. But what does it look like in the brain? What processes are happening there when we are in a state of creative flow, and what can these findings teach us? In this post, I share … Continue reading Conversation About Creative Flow
Spreading the Word: Philosophy’s Role Today
What is the role of philosophy in our modern age? We no longer believe in grand narratives (for the most part!), and empirical sciences seem to hold the keys to all existing and future knowledge. So what about philosophy - is there any place for it left? Although one of the oldest of disciplines that … Continue reading Spreading the Word: Philosophy’s Role Today
Spreading the Word: All Intelligence Is Collective
"All intelligence is collective intelligence" according to the developmental biologist Michael Levin. Listen to this short video where he explains more. Enjoy! "It's never a question of: Is something physics and chemistry, or is it cognitive? The question is: What kind of cognition, and how much?"Michael Levin from the video Link to the video: The … Continue reading Spreading the Word: All Intelligence Is Collective
Spreading the Word: Enter Animal Dreamworld
If we think that our dreamworlds are strange and incomprehensible, what can we say about the dreams of other, non-human animals? There is some fascinating research done in this area. It can give us a glimpse of the richness and variety of perceptions that are beyond our wildest dreams (pun intended). Have a look at … Continue reading Spreading the Word: Enter Animal Dreamworld
Spreading the Word: Embodied Time Perception
The way we experience time is subjective. Philosophers, especially phenomenologists, have recognised and offered their accounts of it at least from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Our experience of time or the "lived-time" remains one of the fascinating directions of philosophical exploration. For example, in this article, the author suggests how the idea … Continue reading Spreading the Word: Embodied Time Perception
Spreading the Word: Connecting Art and Science
What connects art, science, education, and nature? Watch this video where a visual artist, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, and an educator discuss what I would call the human experience. Perhaps unsurprisingly, communication in its various forms is at the heart of our meaning-making. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R11FofCPoQ4 Keeping up the "Spreading the Word" tradition, I hope to … Continue reading Spreading the Word: Connecting Art and Science
Spreading the Word: Scientific Revolution
This week I am finishing up the topic of the history of the Scientific Revolution. After having offered my philosophical take on it in the last two articles, I share with you this fun short video from the same YouTube channel that brought you last week's Plato and Aristotle - the CrashCourse. I especially appreciate … Continue reading Spreading the Word: Scientific Revolution
Tension in Enlightenment Project
One of the more striking incoherences characteristic of the Enlightenment is the struggle to establish a naturalistic foundation for morality and ethics. Given the success of the natural sciences and overall confidence in the human cognitive capacities to understand and explain nature in a purely mechanistic way, the hopes of Enlightenment thinkers must have been … Continue reading Tension in Enlightenment Project
Philosophical Notes: Is Kant an Enlightenment Thinker?
There are different views about this question. Some scholars see the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant as one of the central Enlightenment thinkers, while others claim that in him we can already see the shift away from the self-confident optimism about the power of human reason that marked the Enlightenment age. However, any answer to … Continue reading Philosophical Notes: Is Kant an Enlightenment Thinker?
Complexity Of The Science And Religion History
It can be argued that history as an academic discipline, itself one of the oldest human and social sciences, can never provide a true reflection of events it claims to investigate. By 'true' I mean here 'objective' and by this I mean an account that is free from the influence of the personal interests of … Continue reading Complexity Of The Science And Religion History
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