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Tag Archives: Wisdom
Leadership?
What would it take to elect leaders who have the requisite wisdom and compassion to serve the people rather than themselves? [ 18/April/22 ] Not actually a useful question. A better question is, what is required for us to develop … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Our Future, Philosophy, Politics, understanding
Tagged future, leadership, Philosophy, Politics, understanding, Wisdom
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Quora – If good and bad is subjective, then what right does any government have to punish anyone for anything
If good and bad is subjective, then what right does any government have to punish anyone for anything, if that person could just argue that he was doing what’s “right” in his own eyes? [ 24/3/20 ] A lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Philosophy, Politics, understanding
Tagged complexity, Philosophy, Politics, sensemaking, understanding, values, Wisdom
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Quora – Which one is more important for me as a human, justice or peace?
Quora – Which one is more important for me as a human, justice or peace? [ 15/3/20 ] There is no way to disentangle them. The mathematics of strategy is clear, if you want peace (or justice), then you must … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, cooperation, future, justice, peace, understanding, values, Wisdom
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Quora – What has living for a long time made you realize?
Quora – What has living for a long time made you realize? Life is far more complex and far less certain than I once thought it to be. It now seems very probable to me that uncertainty is deeply built … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, understanding
Tagged complexity, Responsibility, uncertainty, understanding, Wisdom
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Quora – Why should we look forward to the path we pave during our life span?
Why should we look forward to the path we pave during our life span? We don’t have to pave a path. We can walk the paths paved by others. We can choose a path less traveled. We can choose to … Continue reading
Email to Daniel S
Email to Daniel S after watching YouTube Making Sense of Sensemaking: Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jamie Wheal, Jordan Hall – Top Chat Replay Hi Daniel Enjoyed the conversation between you three. I think Jordan has it seriously wrong in a really deep … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Our Future, Politics, understanding
Tagged complexity, Evolution, understanding, Wisdom
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Quora – Purpose
Quora – What are the factors that define our purpose in life? Like many others here have written, our definition of purpose seems to result from an extremely complex and potentially infinitely extensible set of factors including: many levels of … Continue reading
Laurie – Labyrinth Walking
Laurie’s Blog – Labyrinth Walking Laurie asked: What question or prayer would you contemplate on a labyrinth walk? For me, the question would be the same one I have been asking since 1974: What sort of social, political and technical … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Laurie's blog, Our Future, understanding
Tagged Abundance, AI, complexity, cooperation, Evolution, freedom, Longevity, transcendence, understanding, Wisdom
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Free Will – Ted’s version
I’ve been responding to a lot of other people’s definitions of free will lately – here is my own: In my understanding, free will can be very real, and it is rarely (if ever) absolute. The understanding I have of … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Nature, Philosophy, understanding
Tagged complexity, enlightenment, Evolution, freedom, knowledge, Philosophy, understanding, Wisdom
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Free Will again – updated 21 Dec
A Response to a Blog: This Atheist Believes in Free Will Trick Slattery’s Blog has a 500 char limit that I only encountered after writing 10,600 characters – so my response is here, and only a link to it there … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Philosophy
Tagged freedom, knowledge, Philosophy, science, understanding, Wisdom
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