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Polymaths And The Creation Of The World

The Austrian satirist Karl Kraus once quipped, “I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.” It’s only funny because of what it reveals to be one of the greatest truths about our world. The most consequential term in Western language is also quite possibly the […]

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A Non-Philosopher’s Guide To Plato

Why is an elephant large, grey, and wrinkled?Because if she were small, white, and round, she’d be an aspirin. —Platonic joke you will understand after reading this post The ancient Greek philosopher Plato still influences popular culture, art, and thought 2,400 years after his death in 348 B.C. He and his mentor Socrates are fascinating […]

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Conservation In The Time Of Pandemic

As I write, we don’t yet know the full socioeconomic impact of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic on people and places around the world. But we know from conversations we’ve had with colleagues and partners globally that cultural heritage places and the many people who rely on them for their livelihoods have been, and continue to […]

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Influencers: Who’s Influencing Who?

There’s an article in The New York Times worth reading about the relationship between influencer statistics and book sales, entitled “Millions of followers? For book sales, ‘it’s unreliable”, which has gotten the publishing industry talking about how best to market new titles. The limits of influencers are becoming increasingly clear: the first question revolves around […]

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Are Science And Religion Compatible?

Key Takeaways: There is perhaps no better time than now to address the role of faith in our society. Any hypothesis that wishes to be accepted as fact must have ways to be tested and falsified. When astronomy, medicine, and evolutionary biology have provided proof that contradicts the Bible, religious leaders integrate these findings into […]

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Are We Living In A Simulation?

Brave New World. The Matrix. The Truman Show. Inception. Source Code. And the latest dystopia I’ve seen: Archive. They all trade on the same group of basic structures: the idea that we do not exist, and moreover, may neverhave; that we are but algorithms; that we are mere vestiges of something past; or that reality is anything but real, in spite of the […]

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Who Am I? What Is The Self?

Who am I? What is the self and where does it come from? This may be one of the oldest problems in philosophy. Beyond traditional philosophy, only very recently approaches from neuroscience (in particular imaging studies) have tried to address these questions, too. So what are neural substrates of our self? An increasing body of […]

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The Problem With Maslow’s Pyramid Of Needs

Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs implies a linearity, with self-actualization crowning our enlightenment, once the rest of the pyramid’s ‘baser needs’ are met. While powerful, it is a misguided notion. In reality, we need to start “at the top”. Here’s why. His was a brilliant piece of reflective­­­ — if intuitive — insight that gave […]

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How News Drives Economic Change

News of a big pay rise might see you booking the nearest fancy restaurant for a slap-up meal to celebrate, or encourage you to go on a shopping spree even before your raise hits your bank account.  Recent research shows that this is also essentially what happens on a wider economic scale when news breaks about future […]

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The Perception Of Sentience

Key Takeaways: Any suggestion that a bee, or any invertebrate, had a mind of its own or that it could experience the world in an intricate and multifaceted way would be met with ridicule. Failure to recognise your hive and return home equals death. The questions we pose to understand the minds of bees must […]

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How Philosophy Transformed Into Physics

Key Takeaways: The Nobel Prize in physics this year has been awarded “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. Another possibility is that the quantum world is just like the ordinary world we know and love, but our view of it is distorted, so we can’t […]

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Can A.I. Artists Beat Human Creativity?

Key Takeaways: People consider creativity to be inherently human. But these AI models are beginning to have an impact in the real world, as seen with the prize-winning Midjourney picture. And generating fine art is different to producing digital designs. Both methods use the same underlying approach, known as a diffusion model computer program, which […]

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What Olympic Athletes Can Teach Us About Life

Olympians are often seen as the epitome of human performance, with incredible physical and mental strength. And with the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games recently, it’s hard to not be impressed by the sheer talent and determination of athletes competing from all over the world.  For many of us non-Olympians, the thought of possessing such capabilities […]

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The Rule Of Truth: Fallacies & Pandemic

Alongside COVID-19 as a viral pandemic, the World Health Organization was quick to declare COVID-19 an infodemic, a superabundance of online and offline information with the potential to undermine public health efforts. Here, Dr. Elinor Carmi, Dr. Myrto Aloumpi and Dr. Elena Musi discuss how philosophical fallacies can be instrumentalised in response to the COVID-19 infodemic and assist those […]

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The Importance Of Struggle

Without struggle, there is no gain, or transformation. Without struggle, our actions cannot coalesce, to harness the future. Without struggle, life is bland, and rudderless. Without struggle, we remain unprepared to meet the day’s — or life’s — challenges, and whatever magic we may have inside of us, it remains bottled up, untapped. Struggle is […]

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Facebook Metaverse: What Could Go Wrong?

Facebook’s plans to create a so-called metaverse, which according to the company would include everything from major investments and hiring thousands of people in Europe, to eventually changing the company’s name to reflect its focus in that area. What are some of the problems we might see emerge in a Facebook metaverse. One of the first books to explore the idea of a […]

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