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[Back to Christianity]
When talking about a religion or belief system, please be particularly careful to ensure that any comments are fair and helpful.
This article is part of the 'Ground Up' project.
I do my…
[Back to Human Identity]
Personality analysis and testing is now a significant business. The various models can be seen as a modern secular equivalent to traditional religions: many people claim that personality (the thing these models tell you about) does not exist, but clearly the world does not operate on the basis of such scepticism. Each model has its own group of…
[Back to Human Identity]
Our identity is tied up with the tribes we belong to, the tribes we feel a part of. Of course, 'tribe' in this context is something of a technical term: it refers to the significant social groupings we belong to. Our tribe affects some obvious things, such as the social pressures we face and the expectations placed upon us; it affects who we see as…
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Computing, along with all other aspects of Information Technology, is frequently considered to be one of the major challenges we face - but the power it gives to people means that it must also be one of the answers. Clearly, a great deal needs to be said here...
Here are a few quick links.
[Back to Christianity]
When talking about a religion or belief system, please be particularly careful to ensure that any comments are fair and helpful.
This article is part of the 'Ground Up' project.
In the early…
[Back to Social Theory]
Many people argue today that there is no alternative to capitalism: much of the last century can be seen as a conflict between capitalism and communism, and capitalism won. History is no longer going anywhere (or seen to be going anywhere) because we have arrived at the end point - as Fukuyama's famously misleading title ('…
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The 'Paris Agreement' in 2015 is when the nations of the world agreed that their target was to keep the average surface temperature no more than 1.5 degrees C above the pre-industrial figure. There are a number of problems with this target.
[Back to Politics]
You can stop worrying about the danger of Artificial Intelligence taking over the world: it has already happened. The world is run by organizations - businesses, multinational corporations - which operate according to their own systems and logic. Many of them are legally people but, despite the many people working within them, they are - quite…
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Why are the nations of the world not doing more to address the challenge of climate change? There are probably many reasons. But it's a reasonable assumption that one major barrier preventing faster and more effective response to climate change is this: the elite believe that they will be able to hide from the worst effects. They…
[Back to Spiritual Challenges]
When we talk about religion or belief - almost any religion or belief - it is easiest to talk about the aspects which can be expressed in words. Obviously.
We can't talk in any meaningful way about the subjective experiences people have, but these are often just as important - possibly, they are often more important - than the intellectual and conceptual details…