The power of second thoughts
How habits of thinking can challenge unthinking habits.
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We’re all culpable for the banking crisis
The banking crisis was a failing not wholly of others, but of our laws and our values. Some behaved worse than others, of course, but without a collective failure, these individual ones would not have been possible.
ReadDaniel Dennett’s hard problem
Whether you buy Dennett’s account or not, it illustrates just how much you can offer by way of a theory of consciousness without addressing the Hard Problem. … If he is to win over his critics, Dennett’s own hard problem is his need to do more to show why others should give up theirs.
ReadThe Myth of Self-Authorship
One thing many of us appear to believe today is that a quick Google search will answer any question. As I discovered when trying to find out what we believe today, you don’t even need to do the search. Just type in the first few words and see how the algorithms complete it for you. So it was that the phrase “believe in” was completed by – as I suspected – “yourself”.
ReadOn Free Will
INTERVIEW – SPIKED REVIEW. An interview about free will.
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