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Let’s talk about Brain Rot
This is a critique of the conversation from the video: There exists a peculiar paradox at the heart of modern neuroscience and philosophy—one that insists that despite our ability to reflect, deliberate, and act with intent, free will is nothing more than an illusion. Figures like [SH], wrapped in the certainty of their pop-neuroscientific reductionism, argue that our thoughts and actions simply arise, devoid of...
Believing bullshit has consequences.
A good presentation on the topic of Pseudoscience and bullshit, titled: Why Bother? The Nature of Pseudoscience, How to Fight It, and Why It Matters | Massimo Pigliucci Why bother? I just checked on the Skeptical Inquirer website. I've written166 articles for Skeptical Inquirer. The first one came out in 1999 and it was askeptical look as a biologist at the origin of life. So once...
A critique of Dawkins vs Peterson, Memes & Archetypes |
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with Alex O’Connor and Richard Dawkins to discuss their differences of view on the Abrahamic biblical texts, truth claims in science and fiction, the extension of memes through Jungian archetypes, and the memetical reality of dragons. This episode was filmed on September 30th, 2024 Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator, and bestselling author of books such...
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Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism Western and Eastern Paths to
Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism Western and Eastern Paths to the Heart Radmila Moacanin In her preface to this book,...
Hyecho's journey : the world of Buddhism
Thus historians can write only by combining within their practice the"other" that moves and misleads them and the real that...
Engaging Buddhism
Engaging Buddhism Why It Matters to Philosophy Jay L. Garfield Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xxi l 24 56 91 122 175 214 242...
Encyclopedia of Buddhism
Preface Buddhism is one of the three major world religions, along with Christianity and Islam, and has a history that is...
Empire Of The Dharma
Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877– 1912 Hwansoo Ilmee Kim A Study of the International Center for Korean Studies at the...
Common Ground Between Islam And Buddhism
By Reza Shah-Kazemi With an essay by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Introduced by H. H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama H. R. H....
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The digital euro for the digital economy.
Dear esteemed members and distinguished attendees, It is both a unique honor and a testament to the democratic vibrancy of the...
The democratization of technology.
AI is possibly the "last invention" mankind would need to make, and the rewards are incalculable, which is also true...
The current state of climate change 2022
Today I would like to take some time to lay out the current levels of green house gasses with historical...
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neoBuddhist concepts of love, in romantic relationships.
The Philosophy of Love by Karen Existential love, a quest for meaning,A path to self, a soul's redeeming,Love as virtue, a...
Cannabis policy models
Create a strict legal framework for controlling the production, distribution, sale and possession of cannabis. This aims to accomplish 3...
Medical Cannabis in Parkinson Disease: Real-Life Patients' Experience
This originally appeared at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29059132/ Authors Yacov Balash 1 , Lihi Bar-Lev Schleider, Amos D Korczyn, Herzel Shabtai, Judith Knaani, Alina Rosenberg, Yehuda Baruch, Ruth Djaldetti, Nir Giladi, Tanya Gurevich PMID:...
The Spillover Effect of Recreational Marijuana Legalization on Crime: Evidence
This originally appeared at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022042620921359 Guangzhen Wu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5767-0986 [email protected], Francis D. Boateng, and Xiaodong LangView all authors and affiliations https://doi.org/10.1177/0022042620921359 Abstract An ongoing debate...
IS RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA A GATEWAY TO HARDER DRUG USE AND
This was originally at https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29038/w29038.pdf Recreational marijuana laws (RMLs), which legalize the possession of small quantities of marijuana for recreational use,...
Effects of Drug Policy Liberalization on Public Safety: A Review
This originally appeared at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4294150 Maria M. OrsiniOhio State University (OSU) - Department of Sociology December 5, 2022AbstractAfter decades of criminalization,...
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The digital euro for the digital economy.
Dear esteemed members and distinguished attendees, It is both a unique honor and a testament to the democratic vibrancy of the...
What are dendrites and what do they do ?
An interesting video on dendrites and the history of neural networks....
The democratization of technology.
AI is possibly the "last invention" mankind would need to make, and the rewards are incalculable, which is also true...
