Tag: life
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Optical illusions…
Why people perceive motion in some static images has mystified not only those who view these optical illusions but neuroscientists who have tried to explain the phenomenon. Now Yale neuroscientists have found some answers in the eyes of flies, they reported in Aug. 24, 2020 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It…
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Jesus dying: A story we should invent if it did not exist...
Jesus Christ is undoubtedly a very important figure. He is important for Christians, for obvious reasons. He is important to people who are not Christians due to his teachings and the effect He had on our civilization from His birth up to now. He is even important for atheists and agnostics alike, who always like…
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Coping with the grief of death
Coping with grief is difficult. One has to stay focused on forgetting the reasons for being sad in the first place, but the problem is that when someone is sad for a good reason he doesn't want to forget that reason. Most difficult to cope with is the grief due to the death of a…
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Bored of success!? Embrace your failed self!
Modern societies celebrate success. Every day we look at news about successful football players, about successful managers or entrepreneurs, about successful parents, about successful models. Our feed in social media is flooded with success stories about how people wrote the next best book, how someone invented the next big thing, how someone wrote the next…
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On the philosophical dogmas that support humans' belief in Death
Relative publication sites: PhilPapers Contents 1. Agonies that did not exist (Prelude) Once upon a time thinkers in ancient Greece laid the foundations of philosophy before philosophy even existed. Back then, Parmenides and Heraclitus tried to explain what being is in an era where no philosophical dogmas existed. Raw thinking was our tool back then…
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