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The City of God and The City of Man?
2+ hour, 4+ min ago (850+ words) pjmedia.com The City of God and The City of Man? The concept of pleroma, the City of God and the City of Man, was set down by Saint Augustine in a major theological text circa 400 AD when he was…...
Consciousness: Trying to Define the Unknowable
11+ hour, 51+ min ago (655+ words) "Is consciousness completely reducible to brain activity?" asks the John Templeton Foundation's Martha Park. "Are the tools of third-person, objective science sufficient to explain consciousness?" Michael Pollan, author of A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness, delves into the fierce…...
Redefining 'Consciousness' in the Age of AI
1+ week, 2+ day ago (846+ words) It was an amazing moment in the history of science. Jane Goodall, a 26-year-old who had already spent more than five months, beginning in July 1960, trying to get close to wild chimpanzees in the Gombe Stream Game Reserve in Tanganyika…...
Ashi's Philosophy Gathering: Systems That Make Us Think
2+ week, 6+ day ago (350+ words) Editor's note: "Ashi" is a nickname, not a typo. Then Descartes comes up with an interesting way to overcome the deceiver. He looks to the power of his mind. Intellectual inquiry tells him that since he is thinking, he exists…...
'We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident"
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (626+ words) If you're an American, native or naturalized, you've heard these words thousands of times, so many times that the meaning has been washed out of them in your day-to-day life. Today is the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration…...
Thinking for Oneself: Schopenhauer on Reflection vs. Regurgitation
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (781+ words) Arthur Schopenhauer’s argument is that thinking for oneself is better than regurgitating information from books and that the two produce very different effects in a learner. In the beginning of his essay, he compares the difference between regurgitation and reflection…...
Famed Atheist Richard Dawkins — Author of ‘The God Delusion’ — Believes AI Is Conscious
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (847+ words) God isn’t real, but AI is really conscious. So claims evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, one of the world’s most outspoken atheists. Dawkins wrote the best-selling book, The God Delusion, and has long argued, “Science is the only valid way to…...
God and Man at Yale, and Fort Worth
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1007+ words) Question asked and answered: While browsing through an Architectural Record from 1977, there was a gushing review of the incredibly brilliant Yale Center for British Art by the incredibly brilliant Louis Kahn. The British Center’s special site and function surely had…...
'We Must Take Human Nature As We Find It"
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (395+ words) “We must take human nature as we find it.” —George Washington to John Jay, 1787 James Madison, in Federalist 51, put it this way: Being made in the image of God gives us our exercise of reason and the discernment of virtue,…...
The Day We Become Classics
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (461+ words) Jell-O shots, for the uninitiated, are individual servings of liquid gelatin mixed with liquor and refrigerated until it sets into the well-known "jiggle" we all recognize. Flavor combinations are relatively endless: lime and tequila, orange and vodka, pineapple and rum....