wachter (43)in #new • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Blockchain is the New DemocracyThe democratic ideal of rule by the people is coming full circle. The direct democracy of 5th century BC Athens--the…wachter (43)in #new • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Sensay.it uses artificial Intelligence to match information seekers with other humans who are experts in any given space.I really think the soon-to-be-realized Sensay.it conversational network is the killer app for messaging. Why? Because…wachter (43)in #new • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Actual Human Beings Answer Your Questions on Sensay.itWhat if you had a cross-platform utility giving you the power to choose an expert or even a confidant from among…wachter (43)in #new • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Evil Is Worth StudyingOur moral concepts are sometimes pushed away from completeness by virtue of the fact that most of the events in our…wachter (43)in #new • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Machine DesireWhat is the key feature of human learning? It is, I believe, the desire to learn. From a very young age, children are…wachter (43)in #new • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.The Jungian "Shadow"One of the most significant concepts to emerge from Jungian psychology--at least as useful as "introvert" and…wachter (43)in #fiftywords • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.GrillithicFirst, I leaped from rock to rock, counting them as I went. Then, I picked up a rock and smashed it against another…wachter (43)in #philosophy • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.David Chalmers' "Hard Problem"Animals can do what we do. They can use sign language, tools and their society is eerily similar to our own. But they…wachter (43)in #politics • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.The Ancient Greeks Speak on TrumpIn humanity's first democracy, that of Athens in the fifth century BC, the role of the media fell to the playwrights.…wachter (43)in #science • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.The Mythologizing FunctionLeft to his own devices, man will take available facts and mythologize them into a belief system. Science is such a…wachter (43)in #science • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Quantum Mechanics Provides Limits and Great HopeOne contribution of quantum science is we've found there are limits to the division of matter/energy and spacetime.…wachter (43)in #philosophy • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Evolution Provides an Example of a Changing System Like That of the QuantumWe are all used to seeing changes of state. When the state of a system changes; say, with an animal having offspring…wachter (43)in #new • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Is the Homunculus the Ultimate Fake News?Before the discovery of evolution there were some strange theories about heredity. Few were as weird as perhaps the…wachter (43)in #philosophy • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Man Is Too Full Of Himself Right NowMan created God to help him process the unknown. We now have tools other than religion for this purpose; personal…wachter (43)in #psychology • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.The Lens of the IndividualWe have to learn to see the distortions brought about by the "lens" we use to see things: our own minds. This is quite…wachter (43)in #philosophy • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.The Tyranny of The BodyOur bodies are our albatrosses, our crosses to bear and ulitmately, our undoing. We all live in bodies that eat…wachter (43)in #psychology • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.The Unknown and the UnknowableThe psyche can be occupied by symbols and archetypes that we are unaware of. Being undiscovered, they are free to…wachter (43)in #new • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.ConsciousnessWhy is something so common so hard to describe? Partly because it is so common. We're all "awake" most of the time.…wachter (43)in #new • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.duplicate erasedduplicate erasedwachter (43)in #steemsports • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Next to Bolt and Achilles, Miguel Indurain is the Greatest Athlete in the History of ManMiguel Indurain--"Big Mig"--the Basque Spaniard who won five consecutive Tours de France in the early '90s, is by the…
