Tag: thinking
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Parmenides, quantum mechanics, first impressions…
Scientists try to work with big data. (1) Parmenides thought of the One with almost no “data”. Now with a vast amount of data we are ready to reach the “Theory of Everything” and to prove that all “change is an illusion” (see quantum mechanics), including time (see “relativity”)… Always trust your FIRST impression! You…
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Seeing? No. Just thinking. Think about it.
Is seeing a planet with your own eyes the same as seeing it via scientific analysis? (1, 2) It is an uncomfortable truth, but we must always remember that we do not actually see. We just… think. And no experience of importance is experienced via (sensory) data. Look at these diagrams again. Their silence is…
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New phylum, discoveries, misconceptions…
A whole new phylum may be hiding in our sink. [1] TM6 is thy name. It is weird how the biggest mysteries in life are related to things so close to us…
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Learn how to think.
An article in BBC concerning the teaching of philosophy in French schools. The author honestly speaking his heart out: “If you learn about what Kant or Spinoza once said, it is not so much to understand their argument as to use their argument”. [1] Wow. Not THIS is what I call teaching at its best!…
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Go fail!
It is really astonishing how humanity insists on forgetting the fruitful role of failure in our lives. We actually tend to believe that success happens just out of the blue: a person thinks of something innovative and he then materializes it. It’s all a happy story. As simple as that. That person managed to be…
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