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The Logic Of the Universe

We live in a complex word and it seems hard to make sense of it. Ancient Greek thinkers used the word, ‘logic,’ to describe the process of trying to make sense. These thinkers made up rules, like a...

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HOW TO PLAY LIFE: UNDERSTANDING (The chapter I could not write while my body...

zHOW TO PLAY LIFE: UNDERSTANDING (The Chapter I could not write while my body and spirit were in prison) “A) Rhetorical figure transposing a term from its original concept to another and similar one....

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SPINOZA IN DRAG & A LETTER TO LEONARD SUSSKIND (ARTICLE FOR SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN)

IN BRIEF  Things jump out of the symmetry of energy as holograms and true ideas are immanent not transcendent.  Philosophy is the definition of things and science is the demonstration of things. The...

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3 CONCEPTUAL FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN: A CRITIQUE OF DANIEL KAHNEMAN’S...

3 CONCEPTUAL FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN: A CRITIQUE OF DANIEL KAHNEMAN’S ‘THINKING, FAST & SLOW.’                                     Being critical of Daniel Kahneman, “widely regarded as the world’s...

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PILL OF PROPERTY & DRUG OF RELIGION

THE PILL OF PROPERTY & THE DRUG OF RELIGION             Revolutions in the Middle East are not bringing the expected democracy because revolutions never do. The idea that they might is a...

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HOW TO PLAY LIFE: UNDERSTANDING

HOW TO PLAY LIFE: UNDERSTANDING (The Chapter I could not write while my body and spirit were in prison) Metaphor:  “A) Rhetorical figure transposing a term from its original concept to another and...

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I USED TO GET MAD AT SPINOZA FOR USING THE WORD, ‘GOD.’

I owe a debt of gratitude to someone who emailed me recently about this blog. I wrote back with the following:  I used to get mad at Spinoza for using the word, ‘GOD.’ I felt much the same way about...

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How to Play Life – Reason Inside Prison

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Difference Between Knowing & Believing

1) Knowing is a direct relation with truth as ‘Truth is god itself.” Spinoza 2) Believing (or reason), is our finite brains trying to make sense of what we know 3) Things tell us what we know a) that...

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Memoirs Of A Stress Damaged Thinker

MEMOIRS OF A STRESS DAMAGED THINKER I am addicted to adrenaline highs and the despair of adrenaline lows. Stress-damaged thinking and the reactions which stem from it have damaged my body. My spine is...

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