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Heisenberg meets William Blake: The danger of science's "single vision"

The need for poetic science

Mark Vernon
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Humanity is no less superstitious now than in the past

The Big Bang theory, broken mirrors, and other superstitions

Rami Gabriel
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A life fully lived paradoxically reduces the fear of death

Meaning in life leads to less anxiety around dying

Julie Hannan
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There is no good and evil, only better and worse

What Peter Singer gets wrong about morality

Alastair Norcross
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The potential and danger behind the rise in spirituality

Spiritual complexity, science and meaning making in polycrisis

Anna Halafoff
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Reality is a creation of consciousness

Consciousness is the boundary between the self and the world

Karl Friston
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Hobbes vs Rousseau: are we inherently evil?

The answer depends on what you think of politics.

Robin Douglass
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Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?

The Stoics and Existentialists agree on the answer

Skye C. Cleary
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72 Philosophy Books Everyone Should Read

From Ancient Greece to Postmodernism.

IAI Editorial
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Consciousness is the collapse of the wave function

Quantum mechanics and the organic light of consciousness

Stuart Hameroff
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Consciousness Cannot Have Evolved

The sooner we acknowledge it, the sooner we’ll solve the hard problem of consciousness

Bernardo Kastrup
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Consciousness came before life

The fundamental cause of evolution

Stuart Hameroff
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Reality is a creation of consciousness

Consciousness is the boundary between the self and the world

Karl Friston
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"Following the science" is a dangerous illusion

Truth is personal, but we’ve evolved to pretend it’s not

Pascal Boyer
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Languages are social tools, not windows onto reality

There’s no such thing as “languages”

Vuk Vukotić
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Truth is deeper than mathematics

Reality is not a number

Joanna Kavenna
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Truth is the most dangerous fantasy our species ever invented

The quest for truth is a prelude to violence

Manuel Delaflor
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Consciousness cant be uploaded

Consciousness can't be uploaded

Digital immortality is a metaphysical mirage

William Egginton
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The self exists and it is an illusion

Is there a self within consciousness?

Ricky Williamson
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China’s radical philosophy of action, free will, and the self

Free will is a Western problem, Chinese philosophy dissolves it

Brian Bruya
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Your body thinks as much as your mind

Thinking is embodied, spatial, and outside your head

Barbara Tversky
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Consciousness, cosmology, and the collapse of common sense

Reality is stranger than we can imagine

Eric Schwitzgebel
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Humanity is no less superstitious now than in the past

Humanity is no less superstitious now than in the past

The Big Bang theory, broken mirrors, and other superstitions

Rami Gabriel
Article

A life fully lived paradoxically reduces the fear of death

Meaning in life leads to less anxiety around dying

Julie Hannan
Article

There is no good and evil, only better and worse

What Peter Singer gets wrong about morality

Alastair Norcross
Article

The potential and danger behind the rise in spirituality

Spiritual complexity, science and meaning making in polycrisis

Anna Halafoff
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Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the language of silence

What happens when silence speaks

Steven Bindeman
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