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altrightorigins.com | ||
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bashibazuk.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Abstract: research into the subjective states of animals is highly important for the long term future. However, the dynamics of public opinion may threaten the scientific and political environments in which ideas must be developed and implemented. I outline a particular way in which this is especially likely to happen for animal consciousness research and | |
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violentmetaphors.com
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| | | | | "...for he has no right to give names to objects which he cannot define." -Charles Darwin Do "races" exist as meaningful biological categories? Physical anthropologists and human biologists have been studying race (i.e., blacks vs. whites, or Europeans vs. Asians) for centuries. For most of that time, they subscribed to the perspective that race was... | |
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srconstantin.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Does it make sense to talk about "rational people"? That is, is there a sub-population of individuals who consistently exhibit less cognitive bias and better judgment under uncertainty than average people? Do these people have the dispositions we'd intuitively associate with more thoughtful habits of mind? (Are they more flexible and deliberative, less dogmatic and... | |
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quamproxime.com
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| | | One of the main arguments the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Hararimakes inSapiens: A Brief History of Humankindis that mankind differs from other species because we can cooperate flexibly in large numbers, united in cause and spirit not by anything real, but by the fictions of our collective imagination. Examples of these fictions include gods, nations,... | ||
