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Sentient Synergy: Sketchpad A
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A blog about the future, critical inquiry and the search for what is truly real. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Edwardsville, IL 62025. War on Christmas 2016, Part 2. Call for Papers for Conference. Do you know your own mind? Do we really know? Life is a thicket of veiled. Teleological Illusions and the Creation of Meaning.
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Sentient Synergy: January 2012
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A blog about the future, critical inquiry and the search for what is truly real. Sunday, January 29, 2012. Consciousness, desire and the human imagination. The nature of human consciousness, reflected in the mind-body problem, has challenged philosophers and thinkers for centuries, from Plato, to René Descartes to David Hume and James Mill. But why exactly is such a personal, human characteristic as consciousness so difficult to pin down? Standford's encyclopedia entry on consciousness cites a number of ...
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Sentient Synergy: October 2011
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A blog about the future, critical inquiry and the search for what is truly real. Sunday, October 23, 2011. Mind, body and emotion. The essence and source of human emotions, like that of consciousness itself, is a complex phenomenon that has caused a great deal of bewilderment throughout history. Author and professor Paul Thagard. Makes an interesting observation in an April 15, 2010 blog for Psychology Today. Entitled very simply, " What are emotions. As for the physiological connection, research also po...
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Sentient Synergy: June 2012
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A blog about the future, critical inquiry and the search for what is truly real. Thursday, June 21, 2012. Fatalism, Fear and the Future of Humanity. In another 1,000 years, what will the people of planet earth think of the world of the early 21st century? That the people of today were barbarians? That they were the last of a fading civilization that still carried with them the superstitious baggage that has been a part of humanity for thousands of years? Then there is the intense rationalization that so ...
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Sentient Synergy: May 2012
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A blog about the future, critical inquiry and the search for what is truly real. Saturday, May 5, 2012. People are, that what they. Believe is the unmitigated truth. But what, please tell me, is the criteria? An infinitely subjective spark from deep within the mind? Would you not have to have absolute knowledge, or be. Absolute yourself, to know with certainty that. Nothing at all exists to prove otherwise? Surely to grapple onto absolute truth,. Or what one thinks is absolute,. Is to embark on a journey.
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Sentient Synergy: Existential Anesthesia
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A blog about the future, critical inquiry and the search for what is truly real. Friday, January 17, 2014. What is life,. So we make a dream. Like sand castles in the sun,. We build and define. To make permanent a lie. To ease the pain. Posted by Steve Rensberry. Edwardsville, IL 62025. War on Christmas 2016, Part 2. Call for Papers for Conference. Do you know your own mind? Do we really know? Life is a thicket of veiled.
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Sentient Synergy: Sketchpad B
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A blog about the future, critical inquiry and the search for what is truly real. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Edwardsville, IL 62025. War on Christmas 2016, Part 2. Call for Papers for Conference. Do you know your own mind? Do we really know? Life is a thicket of veiled. Teleological Illusions and the Creation of Meaning.
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Sentient Synergy: Aggregate Thinking and Objectification
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A blog about the future, critical inquiry and the search for what is truly real. Wednesday, December 3, 2014. Aggregate Thinking and Objectification. Individual human action by employing aggregate based calculations and related assumptions is an ontological nightmare, not unlike the epistemological quagmire we find ourselves in with platonism. Ostensibly to predict some future outcome, level of risk or value. How does such thinking differ from the formation of the common stereotype, or prejudicial thinki...
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Sentient Synergy: February 2014
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A blog about the future, critical inquiry and the search for what is truly real. Sunday, February 2, 2014. The Promise of Infinity. Why does life go on for any, when one, just one, must go away? When the smile, the touch, the words of another,. Are snatched from the world of the living against all will. Because this fragile, flesh-bound vessel we use,. Has the permanence of sand. Here but for a spot in time we are, then gone. Friends, lovers, strangers and families. A baby's smile. A mother's tear. Poste...
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Sentient Synergy: December 2014
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A blog about the future, critical inquiry and the search for what is truly real. Wednesday, December 3, 2014. Aggregate Thinking and Objectification. Individual human action by employing aggregate based calculations and related assumptions is an ontological nightmare, not unlike the epistemological quagmire we find ourselves in with platonism. Ostensibly to predict some future outcome, level of risk or value. How does such thinking differ from the formation of the common stereotype, or prejudicial thinki...
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