“Yes we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.” I’ve been reading a lot of the provocative and illuminating work of Dan Dennett lately, and in continuing the comment above, he expanded – …I thought that’s exactly right. Yes we have a soul, but it’s mechanical. But it’s still […]
No matter how mature and adult and sophisticated a person might seem, that person is still essentially an ex-baby. … My suspicion is that the soul choreographs one’s biography and one’s destiny….you look at a beautiful interesting face telling a story that you know doesn’t hold a candle to the life that’s secretly in there. […]
The most thought-provoking talk I’ve seen all year – and it wasn’t at TED! As many readers know, I am a big TED groupie, lover of the TED conferences and of all the little TEDx offspring. But the best talk I’ve heard this year was not at a TED conference – it was at the […]
Hello Honeybees, Today we are trying something new – a very short video blog. In this one-minute segment I discuss my belief that WE ARE ALL INVESTORS. We invest our time, our energy, and our resources all day, every day. So thinking about why we invest is important for everyone – and yet many questions […]
Clouds of philosophy, lessons from Ronald Dworkin: I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow It’s cloud illusions I recall I really don’t know clouds at all – Joni Mitchell