Tag Archives: understanding

Quora – How to live healthier

Posted on November 30, 2018 by

What do you do to live healthier? Moved here When my doctor’s advice was “You have terminal melanoma, go home and get your affairs in order”, and I watched him write “palliative care only” on my file, then I was … Continue reading →

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Toxic masculinity and the Patriarchy

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In response to a post by Will on Toxic Masculinity and the Patriarchy Completely agree with you that toxic masculinity needs to be removed where ever it can be. And there are deep issues hiding in this idea. It is … Continue reading →

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Quora – what is the next advance in the scientific method?

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Quora – What will be the next qualitative advance in the scientific method? It seems very probable to me that the method is relatively complete, even if reality is sufficiently complex that people will be able to keep getting interesting … Continue reading →

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Cancer cure article reference

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Ngaio sent me a link on facebook to this article, and asked – is this just a big tease? to which I replied It is sort of accurate. We have known about several mechanisms for inducing apoptosis (cell suicide) for … Continue reading →

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Evolution Institute – Saving Social Constructivism

Posted on November 13, 2018 by

Saving Social Constructivism Yes, this is deep and complex. Yes we are dealing with deeply nested sets of complex adaptive systems (up to 20 and sometimes more levels). The classical notion of “Truth” (that one can be absolutely certain of … Continue reading →

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Quora – Is the emergence of scientific thinking an evolutionary phenomenon rather than something that is objectively better than how humans thought in the distant past?

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Quora – Is the emergence of scientific thinking an evolutionary phenomenon rather than something that is objectively better than how humans thought in the distant past? Why need the two things be exclusive? It seems probable that it is both, … Continue reading →

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Evonomics – Wealth power productivity

Posted on November 13, 2018 by

Why Wealth Is Determined More by Power Than Productivity Everything in this article is true enough, in a sense, yet not sufficient to understand the existential level dangers present in our current economic and political systems. To begin to see … Continue reading →

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