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How do we know what we know? If you grew up like me you were brought up in a culture based on a dualist metaphysics, one that asserts that there is an objective reality outside of ourselves (whatever "we" are) and that we know about it indirectly through our senses and conscious reasoning.  This is the...

We are living in an age of, amongst other things, excellent graphic novels. One shining example, which I have just finished reading, is LOGICOMIX, a graphic novel biography of mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell. (Side note: can a biography still be called a graphic novel? Our terminology may need...

The old philosophical theory says that reason is conscious, can fit the world directly, is universal (we all think the same way), is dispassionate (emotions get in the way of reason), is literal (no metaphor or framing in reason), works by logic, is abstract (not physical) and functions to serve our...

A few short months ago, Hillary Clinton declared an end to the "war on terror." Now, it appears as though the "war on drugs" is ending as well, or is it? In an excellent column in today's Washington Post, Courtland Milloy explores the use of the war metaphor, and how it can be better used, if need...

Tribes are hot. Kevin has referred more than once to the famous Dunbar number for limits on optimal human tribe size. One of my favorite books recently is Seth Godin's book on leadership, called -- you guessed it -- Tribes. Yesterday I heard a great talk by David Logan, co-author of Tribal...

We are living in a time wherein the sound bite is the modal and most influential form of public discourse.  Which is unfortunate because of its unidirectional, one-to-many nature.  I'm happy to report though that I see the signs of a return to more meaningful conversation in the form of online video. This...

I figured it was time for a reset and so the following is a summary of much of the foundational posting that I've done on this blog so far.  As always, a work in progress, subject to refinement and learning... I see there being at least two types of emergence, autocatalytic and cooperative. Emergence...

"We have to learn how to use our words. It’s a fantastic thing — we humans are so easily trapped in our own words. The word time, for instance — we run into puzzles about the concept of time and then we say, oh, what a terrible thing. We don’t realize we’re the source of the puzzles because we...

Arnold Kling blogs about a recent video discussion between Robin Hanson and Will Wilkinson.  I commented on one of the points Arnold picked out of the debate and then realized that I could construct a matrix of epithets based on my analysis.  As it involves evolutionary psychology, I thought some of you...