Month: December 2017
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Why am I self aware?
Why am I self aware? I ask why, like a child asking why can’t I fly Daddy. And like Daddy I cannot answer the why question but can describe quickly and easily how a bird flies, how a plane flies, and that a human does not have the apparatus to fly. I can ask why?…
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Mind, community, universality – three modes, one whole
My recent book Fluidity – the way to true Demokratia outlines a way to make a more inclusive and empowered society. But what is this idea of Fluidity? I want to tell you a little about how the idea of Fluidity was born in my mind, for it is a product of my mind, I…
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Leisure not work is our true calling – Betrand Russell in Praise of Idleness
Not long ago leisure was held in greater esteem than work. Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, De Tocqueville and more recently Barry Jones all saw work as a necessary toil but something to be avoided, it was leisure not work that lead to great insights, true understanding and wisdom. From the quiet contemplation of one’s surrounding, the passive absorption…
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Is giving a gift more morally decent than contracting an exchange?
I ask this question in part because of my recent experience with crowd funding, the idea behind crowd funding is to support some ones idea, project, or invention by giving them some money. They may promise to give a gift in return but there is no contractual agreement to provide a product or service in return…