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Really Reading Means Being Open to Change

July 24, 2018August 2, 2018 ~ cafebedouin

To really read any discursive text, whether a philosophical tract or a legal contract, is a disturbing and cognitively disorienting experience, because it means allowing another person’s thoughts to intrude into your own and rearrange your beliefs and assumptions — often not in ways to which you would consent if warned in advance. Even when … Continue reading Really Reading Means Being Open to Change

The Great Filter: Civilization’s Lifetime

July 23, 2018 ~ cafebedouin

"Several of the scientists I spoke with proposed global warming as the solution to Fermi’s famous paradox, which asks, If the universe is so big, then why haven’t we encountered any other intelligent life in it? The answer, they suggested, is that the natural life span of a civilization may be only several thousand years, … Continue reading The Great Filter: Civilization’s Lifetime

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