Here are some interesting articles I’ve come across recently, for your consideration:
The biology of love. Humans teeter on a knife’s edge. The same deep chemistry that fosters bonding can, in a heartbeat, pivot to fear and hate. [A bit too much evolutionary speculation, but interesting nonetheless.] (Aeon)
The Ancient World’s best kept secret. Recent scholarship exposes a [literally] whitewashed Roman history. (Medium)
Why is the human brain so efficient? How massive parallelism lifts the brain’s performance above that of AI. [And why brains are not digital computers.] (Pocket)
How to become an exceptional writer by studying philosophy. A comprehensive examination of how engaging in philosophical analysis will make you a much stronger thinker and writer. [Don’t know about “exceptional,” but this is useful.] (Medium)
The impact of philosophy – and the philosophy of impact. [I actually think the author’s conclusion is off, but the articles raises some interesting points.] (3QuarksDaily)
Philosophy as a Way of Life
Good to post that Aeon piece on brains and minds and such. Per it, it’s really not fair to compare human consciousness to the processes of a computer, which doesn’t control a “body.” Rather, it would be to compare our embodied consciousness to that of a robot.
And anybody who’s seen robot motion and things like that honestly knows we have little to “fear” at this time.
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I’ve read other such recent pieces on oxytocin. It’s also a reminder to avoid neurotransmitter simplicity. Dopamine is NOT “the pleasure molecule”; serotonin is NOT the “anti-depression molecule”; etc., etc. This spills over into simplistic understandings of addiction and more..
(Besides, most “love” is actually “lust,” but that’s another topic.)
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And, ahh, another article on painted statuary from antiquity. An interesting subject.
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