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The theory of evolution has evolved over many generations. Understanding its history helps in understanding its application in the present. This is an excerpt from the book Philosophy for Heroes: Continuum and the book Does The Brain Need You? If you want to discuss these subjects, check out the Philosophy Meetup Group or follow me […]

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The theory of evolution has evolved over many generations. Understanding its history helps in understanding its application in the present. This is an excerpt from the book Philosophy for Heroes: Continuum and the book Does The Brain Need You? If you want to discuss these subjects, check out the Philosophy Meetup Group or follow me […]

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Wir wurden angegriffen. Mütter, Väter Freunde und Nachbarn Kinder, jeder. Die Welt wurde durch etwas Böses zum Stillstand gebracht, das wir in der Form bisher noch nicht kannten. Dieser Angreifer hat nicht nur unsere Gesundheit, sondern auch unser soziales Miteinander angegriffen.  In einer solchen Situation ist es leicht, Hoffnung zu verlieren und aufzugeben. Ein Blick […]

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Overview of current infection cases: https://www.worldometers.info/coronav... Description of SARS-CoV-2 PCR test by WHO: https://www.who.int/docs/default-sour... Overview of SARS-CoV-2 Testkits: https://www.finddx.org/covid-19/sarsc... Asymptomatic/symptomatic rate of polio (comparable to SARS-CoV-2?): https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pin......

Try to say the color of each word instead of reading the words themselves. #consciousness

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Consciousness can be understood when knowing the evolution of attention from the first multicellular lifeforms to modern mammals. #evolution #consciousness #attention

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Sisko explains linear time to the wormhole prophets, and sums up the essence of human existence

In our daily lives, too often we have our creativity submerged. We can walk down the street, drive to work, bicycle, watch TV, eat, etc. without ever really using this Darwinian machine. The more accustomed we become to our environment, the more we use our automatic, non-creative mind. It also affects our perception of time: time flows more slowly for us the more we use our creative mind. To foster this creativity, it helps to walk new paths, learn new skills, move to new places, examine new...

If you’re good at finding the one right answer to life’s multiple-choice questions, you’re smart. But intelligence is what you need when contemplating the leftovers in the refrigerator, trying to figure out what might go with them. Or if trying to speak a sentence that you’ve never spoken before. As Jean Piaget used to say, intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do, when all the standard answers are inadequate.

—William H. Calvin, How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Th...

“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.”
 
“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”

—Through the Looking-Glass [Carroll, 2015, p. 27]

THE RED QUEEN HYPOTHESIS ·  “Red Queen” is a reference the novel Through the L...