Tag: philosophy
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Meaningful death… (?)
People may cheer the demise of evil villains in fiction, but the deaths we most remember are the meaningful and sad endings of the characters we loved, research suggests. In a new study, researchers found that when people were asked to recall the death of a fictional character, they were more likely to mention deaths…
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Spring 2026 Philosophical Agora
What Harmonia Philosophica Agora is: A place where ideas by readers of Harmonia Philosophica are published and discussed. How to communicate with us: Just email us or use the form in the Publish your Ideas page. Or you can also add a comment here! As simple as that! What to send us: A short text…
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Disharmonia Philosophica
Harmonia Philosophica was born in Kythera so long ago. Now it is time to let go. And I must accept my own death. Only for my old ideas to be transformed. That was always the case. Even the most beautiful things have ugly parents from which they were born. But not this time. This time…
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God. Angels. Particles. Lost.
A 2017 report of the discovery of a particular kind of Majorana fermion - the chiral Majorana fermion, referred to as the "angel particle" - is likely a false alarm, according to another research. Majorana fermions are enigmatic particles that act as their own antiparticle and were first hypothesized to exist in 1937. They are…
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Philosophical snapshot: Words... Words... Words...
Philosophers wonder about what existence is. Philosophers try to find out the meaning of being. Different words. Entangled in huge conversations. The theme of endless research. But what if our thoughts are trapped inside a cave (cafe) we created? What if we created these notions as we created these words? Existence... Being... Are they different?…
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