complexitystudies

Paul Graham has a wonderful essay online, reading time approximately 10 minutes: Lies We Tell Kids
(The essay was brought to my notice via overcomingbias.com)
Some quotes:
This sentence is gold:
The truth is common property. You can’t distinguish your group by doing things that are rational, and believing things that are true. If you want to set [...]

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I am deeply convinced that consciousness/awareness is not something limited to humans or primates but is a property of nearly all higher animals. There now seems to be serious backing for this opinion (locating consciousness in the evolutionary old brain stem):
Lowly brain stem may orchestrate the basics of consciousness
Of course, this raises the issue of [...]

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Much has been written on ethics in philosophy and elsewhere, but in fact it all boils down to this in the end:
“How can morality be defined?” This is one of the ageless questions, asked by man. It is a question that has been answered from almost the moment it was asked. The problem is that [...]

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