Reflections on my OS – Part 1
Stoicism, and the reading I do, has made me focus more on the self. No, not being selfish, but trying to get a. better sense of why I am the way I am. A book I read recently – Behave – gave me a good starting point.
Tag: nature
In Capitalism we bet?
The Book of Life is one of those internet gifts that keep on giving. If you haven’t read/subscribed, now is a good time! One of its articles that I read recently (though it seems to have been written a while back) was On the Dawn of Capitalism. It was about the need for capitalism to […]
Natural Law
After a couple of years of Samsung, I bought a Moto X (2nd gen) phone, the Droid Turbo and Nexus 6 also being considerations. In the first few days of use, the automation that Moto’s Assist, Actions and Voice allows has impressed upon me the potential of such technologies and the dependency we could have on them. […]
Conscious choices
I found this video shared by K (part of a series by Professor Russell Stannard) offering me a very interesting perspective on the free will vs determinism debate. (earlier post) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8EI4obG5zM He starts with talking about the brain as a physical object which is governed by the physical/chemical/biological rules of nature – like a computer works […]
When Man was God…
A few days back, I read this amazing article ‘Why everything you’ve been told about evolution is wrong‘, thanks to Surekha. Though it begins by rubbishing ‘creation by God’, it thankfully moves soon enough into Darwin’s theory of evolution and the epigenome (the protective package of proteins around which DNA is wrapped), which plays a […]