In this quick interview with The New Philosopher, Ricky Gervais answers questions with his usual Ricky Gervais genius. But it’s … More
Category: Deep Dives
A Deep Dive into: Fear – If you just CHOSE to accept, and DECIDED to not be afraid of any of your fears, and then chose to see ‘living’ as your only goal in life, wouldn’t you be eternally and constantly free?
If you just chose to not be scared of dying alone, not meeting someone, not having kids, getting ugly, getting … More
A Deep Dive into: Fear [pt.10] – The fear of looking like a weirdo
This is a deep dive into the emotion that possibly decides more things in our life (or our whole life?): … More
A Deep Dive into: Fear [pt.9] – The fear of looking stupid to others
What’s one of the things that underlies many of our most common fears? They’re irrational. What’s another? They often are … More
A Deep Dive into: Time [pt.3]: The Philosophy of David Eagleman – How to slow down time
The days of thinking of time as a river—evenly flowing, always advancing—are over. Time perception, just like vision, is a … More
A Deep Dive into: AI [pt.10] – Humans: The ants of the future?
You know the ants walking around doing their thing in parks, yards, fields all over the place, right… do they … More
A Deep Dive into: Fear [pt.8] – The fear of not meeting someone before your looks deteriorate. (& The Philosophy of: I Feel Pretty)
When you think about how many couples get married and divorced, and how many in relationships that involve cheating, lying, … More
A Deep Dive into AI [pt.9] – How Anthropomorphism is discrediting and derailing balanced, rational discussions about Artificial Intelligence, and trivialising its real dangers and its existential threat (and how anthropomorphic fear of machines is actually increasing those dangers)
When you think of robots and artificial intelligence do you think of these? or even: ? But what do these … More
A Deep Dive into: Perception [pt.1] – HYPOTHETICAL: If you were born without the sense of touch, sight, hearing, taste or smell, would you understand about the world (if anything)? [Is our understanding of the world –and science– innate in any way]?
Imagine from the start of your life, that you’ve never seen, touched, heard, smelt or tasted anything… What would you … 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