http://www.netvouz.com/emmineb/tag/philosophy?feed=rss emmineb's bookmarks tagged "philosophy" on Netvouz http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.towardsanewera.net/new_page_13_files/image045.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.towardsanewera.net/new_page_13.htm&h=155&w=150&sz=8&hl=en&start=4&sig2=B29-b9mVMdG6xazgYchMbw&um=1&usg=__gAKt8fE6zMRW5TnIr-GUlmk8Abg=&tbnid=wDaTgpcFgOxFXM:&tbnh=97&tbnw=94&ei=sszcSNHYCZq80wT04qzoDg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnorse%2Bsymbol%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG As a great deal of the controversy concerning the contemporary dilemma inherent in the sciences, the first part of this chapter deals with the strange reportage of Einstein’s last years, as far from being deluded or misguided, his own nagging intuitions concerning the nature of Ultimate Reality led to him to discard his own theories and turn instead to the work of Kaluza and Klein. His insights were astute, and yet even those who work within the area of String Theory, an orientation itself aligned with the later theories that Einstein was engaged with were somehow compelled to diminish Einstein and his more recent theories, adulating his earlier accomplishments and anchoring for the public a false impression of the state of contemporary physics. emmineb Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:10:52 GMT http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/1/18/153331/505 emmineb Sat, 10 Feb 2007 06:09:35 GMT http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes emmineb Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:24:13 GMT http://www.samurai.com/5rings/ emmineb Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:04:10 GMT http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/rncse_content/vol19/8300_islamic_scientific_creationism_12_30_1899.asp At the time that "Creation Science: A Successful Export?" was published in RNCSE (Matsumura 1998), there was an notable debate among intellectuals, scientists, lay people and fundamentalist Islamists concerning Islamic scientific creationism in Turkey. Since the early 1990s, the Science Research Foundation (Bilim Arastirma Vakfi, or BAV) has undertaken a new mission of spreading an Islamic version of scientific creationism in Turkey, the ideology of which was mainly imported from the US. However, it was not until late 1998 that many scientists and academics, as well as Turkish science institutions, such as TUBITAK (the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council) and TUBA (the Turkish Academy of Sciences), protested the pseudoscience of BAV and publis emmineb Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:12:44 GMT http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2007/12/astrosociobiology-article-on-wikipedia.html Astrosociobiology Astrosociobiology (also referred to as exosociobiology, extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI), and xenosociology) is the speculative scientific study of extraterrestrial civilizations and their possible social characteristics and developmental tendencies. The field involves the convergence of astrobiology, sociobiology and evolutionary biology. Hypothesized comparisons between human civilizations and those of extraterrestrials are frequently posited, placing the human situation in the same context as other extraterrestrial intelligences. Whenever possible, astrosociobiologists describe only those social characteristics that are thought to be common (or highly probable) to all civilizations. Since no extraterrestrial civilizations have ever b emmineb Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:45:31 GMT http://www.digitallantern.net/mcluhan/mcluhanplayboy.htm In 1961, the name of Marshall McLuhan was unknown to everyone but his English students at the University of Toronto--and a coterie of academic admirers who followed his abstruse articles in small-circulation quarterlies. But then came two remarkable books-- "The Gutenberg Galaxy" (1962) and "Understanding Media" (1964)--and the graying professor from Canada's western hinterlands soon found himself characterized by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the hottest academic property around." He has since won a world-wide following for his brilliant--and frequently baffling--theories about the impact of the media on man; and his name has entered the French language as mucluhanisme, a synonym for the world of pop culture. emmineb Thu, 24 May 2007 11:03:07 GMT http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/dabbott/imponderables.htm Collecting "imponderables" or interesting unanswered questions is one of my hobbies and I list a bunch of questions here. I decided to put them on this web site to encourage students to think creatively and identify deep questions. But anyone is welcome to enjoy them. I know the answer to some of them, but many are open questions to have fun with. Maybe some can never be answered. The questions are also here to encourage interdisciplinary thinking. The most exciting scientific problems in the century following 2001 will require a multidisciplinary approach. A challenge: If you email me a really elegant answer or discussion to any of these questions, I will display your contribution on this page. emmineb Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:13:45 GMT http://www.healthbolt.net/2007/02/14/26-reasons-what-you-think-is-right-is-wrong/ A cognitive bias is something that our minds commonly do to distort our own view of reality. Here are the 26 most studied and widely accepted cognitive biases. 1. Bandwagon effect - the tendency to do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same. Related to groupthink, herd behaviour, and manias. Carl Jung pioneered the idea of the collective unconscious which is considered by Jungian psychologists to be responsible for this cognitive bias. 2. Bias blind spot - the tendency not to compensate for one’s own cognitive biases. 3. Choice-supportive bias - the tendency to remember one’s choices as better than they actually were. emmineb Tue, 29 May 2007 15:30:19 GMT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/08/AR2007020801680_pf.html In today's Washington Post, a former interrogator working with the US government in Iraq, Eric Fair, shares some of his disturbing memories: A man with no face stares at me from the corner of a room. He pleads for help, but I'm afraid to move. He begins to cry. It is a pitiful sound, and it sickens me. He screams, but as I awaken, I realize the screams are mine. That dream, along with a host of other nightmares, has plagued me since my return from Iraq in the summer of 2004. Though the man in this particular nightmare has no face, I know who he is. I assisted in his interrogation at a detention facility in Fallujah. I was one of two civilian interrogators emmineb Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:24:48 GMT