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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXVI

December 22, 2021

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXVI On Narrative Control and ‘Fact Checking’ One of the areas of interest for me as I weaved my way through my ten years of formal post-secondary education (yes, I spent the entire decade of the 1980s pursuing four degrees at several different universities; some of it part-time as I waffled […]

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The Truth About Décolletages: an Epistemic Analysis

August 2, 2021

The Truth About Décolletages: an Epistemic Analysis   This image represents the rape of Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess. It was  probably made during the 5th century BCE (Presently at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Napoli, 2422). Note the partial nakedness of the figure of Cassandra: for the ancient female breasts did not have the erotic meaning that […]

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Who is the Emperor of the World? The New Age of Epistemic Dominance

July 11, 2021

Who is the Emperor of the World? The New Age of Epistemic Dominance King Kamehameha 1st of Hawai’i (1736 – 1819) practiced the art of gift-giving during his reign, as it is typical of kings and rulers. It is remembered  that he said, “E ‘oni wale no ‘oukou i ku’u pono ‘a’ole e pau.” “Endless is […]

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The Geopolitics of Epistemological Warfare: From Babylon to Neocon

January 21, 2020

The Geopolitics of Epistemological Warfare: From Babylon to Neocon  I think any sane human being can agree that while war was never a good idea, war in the 21stcentury is an absolutely intolerable one. The problem we currently face is that many of the forces driving world events towards an all-out war of “Mutually Assured […]

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Epistemological divide: How we live in two different worlds of understanding

December 31, 2019

Epistemological divide: How we live in two different worlds of understanding Epistemology is the study of how we know things. All of us cycle between two main ways of knowing in our modern culture: 1) the rational, reductionist way and 2) the holistic, relational, intuitive way. By far the most dominant way is the rational, […]

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Epistemology of a Dying Empire: How do Our Leaders Make Choices?

November 6, 2018

Epistemology of a Dying Empire: How do Our Leaders Make Choices? Recently, Michael Liebreich published an article titled “The Secret of Eternal Growth.” I have been mulling over in my head if it is appropriate to spend time discussing one more mishmash of legends, including the one that’s by now a classic, the “errors” that […]

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So, You Think Science Will Save the World? Are You Sure?

August 29, 2018

So, You Think Science Will Save the World? Are You Sure? I understand that by publishing this post I may be giving ammunition to the anti-science crowd. But we can’t just hide in the ivory tower and tell people that science is perfect as it is. We need deep reforms in the way science is […]

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Axiom of Uncertainty

July 11, 2018

Axiom of Uncertainty It’s simple. Given that there might well be an absolute nature/structure of the universe and our perhaps fundamentally limited cognitive position/abilities within it can we be certain that we can be sure about the true nature of anything? Can there be fundamental forces, matter, and material relationships of which we will never know? While unanswerable in principle, the mere possibility of […]

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Climate change and the alien gods of the Bible: an epiphany of epistemology.

January 28, 2016

Climate change and the alien gods of the Bible: an epiphany of epistemology. Fish-god and assorted alienities from an ancient Sumerian cylinder seal (image from wikipedia). Nothing real but, oh, so fascinating! As I was waiting for my train at the Milano station, last week, I toured a bookstore and I was attracted to a book […]

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Climate Change: a clash of epistemologies

October 2, 2015

Climate Change: a clash of epistemologies In a post published earlier this year, Ugo Bardi explains that the debate on climate change is going nowhere due to a fundamental incommunicability – or a ‘clash’ as he calls it – between different types of epistemologies over climate change. In his post he refers to some exchange […]

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Who’s In Your Head?

August 11, 2015

Who’s In Your Head? When you reflect on your life, do you sometimes lament the choices you’ve made, directions you took or didn’t take, and wonder what could have been? You may find that you’ve achieved success in one or more areas of life, yet feel like you have fallen short in others. You might […]

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A clash of epistemologies: why the debate on climate change is going nowhere.

February 2, 2015

A clash of epistemologies: why the debate on climate change is going nowhere. A few weeks ago, someone barreled into the comment section of a post on climate change on the blog of the Italian Society of Chemistry (SCI) with a series of attacks against climate science and climate scientists. The ensuing clash was all in Italian […]

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