Being Human
The dizziness of freedom
The path laid out for Australian-born Tim Cope was to go to university, get a job, a career, a house and a mortgage; he…
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Being Human
Optimising mutualism
“All Nature is linked together by invisible bonds and every organic creature, however low, however feeble, however dependent, is necessary to the well-being of…
Illusions
Do you really exist online?
There’s a cartoon you’ve probably seen before: two dogs are sitting at a computer, with one telling the other that “On the Internet, nobody…
Philosophy and you
The limits of imagination
“Nothing is more free than the imagination of man; and though it cannot exceed that original stock of ideas furnished by the internal and…
Illusions
Cast-iron certainty
Many of us desire certainty. We don’t just want to believe, or even have fairly or very good grounds for believing. We want more…
Wealth of philosophers
Philosophers are more likely to be poor than rich. Some have made a virtue out of that. Diogenes of Sinope, the original Cynic, watched…
Ideas to change your life
The Media Effect
Sociologists have long known that most of us are pretty nice. We work well in groups and take care of one another. We generally…
Philosophy and you
Does the future matter?
In Tino Sehgal’s installation of his artwork This Progress, each visitor walked into the bottom of The Guggenheim’s spiral rotunda and was met by…
Ideas to change your life
A clear look
“What we can know, and what we can understand, is so influenced by our location in time that it is impossible for us to…
Ideas to change your life
Factory Earth
The family is worried. Suggestions are passed between siblings, and aunts and uncles are eager to set things right. What about doing this job?…
Being Human
Defining ourselves
By Ai Weiwei Many of the problems in the world today, when one reflects upon them, call for an answer to an ancient question:…
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NFN: Art <--> Science
“A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts…