Origins of the self

Origins of the self

I was pleasantly surprised when I chanced upon this article on the BBC website, since it is an area of personal interest to me. This article is about the awareness of others thinking and is actually related to a primate study. Here is the BBC's overview: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/16305600 Whilst this...

What does it mean to be you?

This is a response to this video presentation, by the philospher, Julian Baggini for RSA.org. Julian's presentation, is in relation to his book “The Ego Trick”. Watch the video first here: or... here is the link http://youtu.be/TF2A3rKqoY0 Then I will add a few cents to his discussion. 0:00 – 7:11 Julian's presentation is bang on the money so far, I cannot fault a word that he says. 7:11 – 7:16 This sentence he uses the...

Death of Ruthless Truth

Remember the box on the table example, you have assumed what is in the box, questioned me, countered my claims but really I have seen the contents already, so it is kind of a non argument for me. However, I will definitely concede that some of the assumptions that I made around this discovery were conceived dogmatically and you, my fellow readers and objectors, have helped me to temper them in to something workable. We have explored ontology,...