Do other animals in Animalia compromise? For their own, or for their mutual goals (which you could argue are ultimately … More
Author: Dave
You control your own happiness and tranquility. 100% of the time.
It’s not situations of people that make you angry, upset or feel disappointed. It’s your reaction to it. If something … More
Our search for alien life might not only be misguided and pointless but also arrogant and egomaniacal, and therefore dumb (is biological life the supreme form of existence?).
In the intro to the ‘Alien Contact’ event at next month’s World Science Festival in Brisbane it says: Humanity is on the … More
Missing the point? + A Deep Dive into: Time [pt.2] – Schopenhauer’s idea that the past, future NOR the present can be enjoyed assumes that the past, present and future are actually things.
Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value. Just because … More
A Deep Dive into: Marriage – if everything changes and everything that begins must end, and it’s the natural order of things, is marriage also a selfish act?
Sidenote: Now this is another potentially flammable issue that contains that pesky thing known as emotion, but I’m going to … More
What is Last Thursdayism?
The past is not an indicator of (and definitely doesn’t prove) the future. But maybe the past doesn’t even prove … More
A Deep Dive into: Time – What is it?
Sidenote: Try to answer this question without mentioning any mathematical temporal intervals to measure duration, like ‘Years/weeks/minutes/seconds etc…’ What is … More
If you fear a future might not be the one you want, don’t avoid the thought. Imagine it, picture it in great detail, you might find it’s not so bad or even actually much better than you think.
We often fear the unknown. In fact, maybe most of our fears are about things that might happen. Or maybe not. So … More
A Deep Dive into: AI [pt.8] The philosophy of Peter Haas: We need a healthy scepticism to make AI both benign and useful for humanity
Humanity hasn’t faced a serious threat to its existence since the plague ravished Europe, on a smaller scale, hundreds of … More
‘Thanks for reminding me’ – How our emotions, past experiences, judgements, sentimentality and sense of attachment interfere with understanding and coming to conclusions about the things that matter most. (+ The philosophy of: Nick Bostrom & one of my students)
The problem with the things we don’t want to talk about is exactly that: we don’t want to talk about … More