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Tag Archives: understanding
What damage will it cause in recognizing that all humans are equal?
What damage will it cause in recognizing that all humans are equal? [ 8/August/21 ] All humans are different. Pretending we are all equal is nonsense. We all have various differences in our strengths and weaknesses. And there is necessarily … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Philosophy, understanding
Tagged complexity, cooperation, diversity, respect, understanding
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Do environments affect the evolution of a species?
Do environments affect the evolution of a species? [ 8/August/21 ] Absolutely – yes. Evolution requires two things. It requires a replicator, with variation, and it requires different environments that are to some degree isolated from each other. You need … Continue reading
Is there ever going to be a safer world?
Is there ever going to be a safer world? [ 7/August/21 ] Very probably yes. If we can get past using scarcity based value metrics (market values), and most people appreciate that liberty and security are both optimized by cooperation … Continue reading
Kierkegaard – Truth always rests with the minority … because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion.
Kierkegaard – Truth always rests with the minority … because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion. [ 7/August/21 … Continue reading
Posted in Our Future, Philosophy, understanding
Tagged knowledge, Philosophy, truth, uncertainty, understanding
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How can human conservation efforts affect an organism’s natural survivability?
How can human conservation efforts affect an organism’s natural survivability? [ 6/August/21 ] By changing contexts. All animals are context dependent for their survival. Human beings are often the greatest influence on the environment. Multiple instances of it here in … Continue reading
Is there a realistic possibility of creating a world without borders?
Is there a realistic possibility of creating a world without borders? [ 6/August/21 ] No. Because looked at purely systemically, every level of structure requires borders. And in complex structures, borders cannot be rigid and inflexible. Cell membranes are selectively … Continue reading
What is the most likely to cause humanity’s extinction?
What is the most likely to cause humanity’s extinction?Moved to this [ 6/August/21 ] Human beings working for very short term goals like: Biologists working for a wage, working on gain of function research; or Physicists working for a wage, … Continue reading
Posted in economics, Our Future, understanding
Tagged complexity, Evolution, future, risk mitigation, uncertainty, understanding
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Lifeboat Foundation – Solar Power
Lifeboat Foundation – Solar Power [ 5/August/21 ] Storage is an issue, and it will be solved. Iron air batteries look good for grid scale storage. For grid scale, it doesn’t matter how heavy batteries are, it only requires that … Continue reading
Posted in Our Future, Technology, understanding
Tagged solar power, technology, understanding
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Lifeboat – Science is ..
Lifeboat Foundation – Science is … [ 5/August/21] I agree with Marco Santini, Science is not about Truth, it is about successive revisions of approximations and models such that we become less wrong over time. It seems beyond any shadow … Continue reading
Emptiness Dancing
Judi’s facebook post on Adyashanti – Emptiness Dancing [ 4/August/21 – “Awakening reveals that there is no personal self, and that everything is myself….”] Interesting how different our interpretations of such events can be. For me an analogy is watching … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Our Future, Philosophy, understanding
Tagged complexity, Evolution, future, risk mitigation, understanding
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