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The Power of a Thin Skin
“To be thin-skinned is to feel keenly, to perceive things that might go unseen, unnoticed, that others might prefer not to notice.” Yes, we spend our lives trying to discern where we end and the rest of the world begins. The boundary is so difficult to discern because, when all the stories fall away, there…
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Nature and Creativity: The Science of “Soft Fascination” and How the Natural World Resets the Brain
“Our everyday experience does not prepare us to assimilate the gaping hugeness of the Grand Canyon or the crashing grandeur of Niagara Falls. We have no response at the ready; our usual frames of reference don’t fit.” “In the street and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean,”…
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Ethics & Bionics
Bionics have long been part of science fiction (most famously the Six Million Dollar Man), the reality of prosthetics has mostly been disappointing. But, thanks to America’s endless wars and advances in technology, bionic prosthetics are real. There are, for example, replacement legs that replicate the functionality of the original organic versions quite well. There…
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Lesley Walker: Commentary on “From Human Reasoning to Belief”
Commentary on “From Human Reasoning to Belief” Lesley Walker In Joshua Mugg’s book, From Human Reasoning to Belief, he offers an empirically viable alternative to dual process theory and in doing so unifies three contentious cases of belief. The first are cases of wishful thinking, the second, cases of faith, … Share this… Linkedin Facebook…
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