the way a magician thinks about the world
Once you strip away the essentialist veneer from consciousness it becomes fairly easy to imagine a gradual natural process giving rise to it, particularly in a competitive environment like our biosphere where organisms needs to work harder than their neighbour to get food.
Read MoreBonus points if you can pronounce the name of the video’s creator: Kurzgesagt. It’s been a badly kept secret for a while that “organic” is really just a marketing term. You say it with a positive connotation and with some confidence so that people will assume it means something good, but behind it, there’s not […]
Read MoreKurzgesagt, the clever animator, insightful commentator and sexy narrator uploaded this video essay about the possible end of space travel. This kind of observation hints at one of the problems with the way we approach moral questions. The philosophical question of where we derive notions of “ought” and values from is a bit of a […]
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