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By Ken Samples ABSOLUTE: Something that is independent of, and
By Ken Samples ABSOLUTE: Something that is independent of, and unconditioned by, anything external to itself (non-contingent). ABSTRACT IDEA: A gen...

Consciousness is just a manifestation of the tools we have been
Consciousness is just a manifestation of the tools we have been given by our biology via the vehicle of evolution - why do we have consciousness ? be...

Just what is Philosophy, anyway? Here as a set of
Just what is Philosophy, anyway? Here as a set of concluding remarks , I offer a view of what Philosophy itself is and what it isnt. Well start w...

Peter Watson - The Age of Atheists ... fascinating book but
Peter Watson - The Age of Atheists ... fascinating book but difficult to read ... Friedrich Nietzsche (madman) first author of the concepts 1) there...

Stringing together at a rapid patter a bunch of scientific
Stringing together at a rapid patter a bunch of scientific sounding words sprinkled in with some new age words doesnt mean anything ... take this one ...

This readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our
This readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all ...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV)
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) classifies depression into the following types (there are even more, but these cove...

IMPLICIT MEMORY AND AMNESIA Amnesic patients can still learn in
IMPLICIT MEMORY AND AMNESIA Amnesic patients can still learn in some ways. Procedural learning (such as learning a motor sequence) is intact and they ...

This was a very interesting talk, and Prof Dehaene and colleagues
This was a very interesting talk, and Prof Dehaene and colleagues are doing fascinating neuroscience. But as is often the case with neuroscientists en...