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Schrödinger - Universal Consciousness
In Erwin Schrödinger’s books, What is Life and Mind and Matter, Schrödinger points out what he calls the “Arthimetical Paradox” that we only ever exp…
1 year ago
The Touched Self - Ciaunica and Fotopoulou
Today we are diving into research by Anna Ciaunica and Aikaterini Fotopoulou in this book chapter entitled The Touched Self: Psychological and Philos…
1 year, 2 months ago
Daniel Kolak - I Am You
The core argument of philosopher Daniel Kolak's book, I Am You, is that we are all the same person, or, more precisely, that a single subject (consci…
1 year, 3 months ago
John Wheeler's Participatory Universe
Physicist John Archibald Wheeler, who coined such terms as “black hole”, “wormhole”, and “quantum foam” wrote about his concept of the “Participatory…
1 year, 4 months ago
Whitehead - Adventures in Ideas
Recently I had the thought “I’m not making things happen, the things that are happening are making me”. For me this resonates with what Alfred Nort…
1 year, 4 months ago
David Hume - A Treatise of Human Nature
18th century philosopher, David Hume’s essay entitled A Treatise Of Human Nature is the topic of today’s deep dive. Hume analyzes the role of memory …
1 year, 4 months ago
Daniel Dennett - Where Am I?
This short story entitled Where Am I? by philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett really made my head spin. It is the fascinating tale …
1 year, 5 months ago
Douglas Hofstadter - Analogy as the Core of Cognition
Cognitive and computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter is best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach, and his later book I Am a …
1 year, 5 months ago
Julian Jaynes - Consciousness and the Voices of the Mind
Princeton psychologist Julian Jaynes outlines his fascinating theory of the bicameral mind in this essay entitled Consciousness and the Voices of the…
1 year, 5 months ago
Leibniz - Monadology
Douglas Harding’s description of the Heirarchy of Heaven and Earth was clearly influenced by Leibniz and Leibniz’s Monadology. In the Monadology Le…
1 year, 5 months ago