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The part in bold is the problem. Science, which evolutionary theory is a part of, does not ask or answer why. Science, including evolutionary theory, ...

But I am never sure what other people have in mind when they bring up that concept. I have said what I have in mind: directing energy inward or outwar...

The essence of philosophy? It is asking and attempting to answer the most fundamental questions in the Western intellectual tradition. There is, of co...

I believe that it is in The Story of Philosophy where Will Durant says that science reduces and analyzes things while philosophy synthesizes things.

I sense teleology here. I believe, therefore, that your OP was on the wrong track before you wrote it. Evolution by natural selection, as I understand...

I believe that Susan Haack has identified one of the characteristics of scientism as the preoccupation with and obsession with demarcating what is and...

Science? I once saw somebody once put it this way: "Science is a nicely-packaged philosophy".

The same way that an evolutionary psychologist describes a symmetrical face as pleasing?

I have never heard anything from the humanities or social sciences about cultures other than modern, Enlightenment-inspired cultures highly valuing ha...

Now that I am able to read the article again, I see that my memory of it was very accurate: "The shy are frequently thoughtful and occasionally brilli...

I sense that when people are talking about introversion and extroversion they often do not have the same things in mind. To me introversion is directi...

Even if it is not in some extremely defined role like cashier, extroversion feels fake, I have noticed. Even if it is part of spontaneous conversation...

Maybe I am misconstruing those words, but they seem to be saying that a sufferer's suffering is due to his/her own failure. Therefore, a rape victim's...

In a system where it is hammered into everybody's head almost from the moment of their birth that they have two choices, earn a college degree and pro...

Sounds kind of like what I have heard some climate change deniers say: climate change is a good thing because every place will have Florida weather.

Notice that you follow "evolutionary benefits" with "pleasing". Not all beauty is "pleasing". Some beauty is humbling. Some is sobering. Some is sooth...

I have not been enrolled for 16 years. I have 58 credit hours. If I was to change my major to history I would, being in my junior year, be expected to...

I've spent too much of my life worrying about and trying to be something I am not: an extrovert. And I think that it is more about lifestyle, goals, e...

If we are taking about functioning better, that is one thing. But if we are talking about trauma, pain, etc. then what I believe David Smail said (fro...

This sounds like the manifest image vs. scientific image problem.

It always leaves me feeling empty and unfulfilled. But if the other person/people enjoyed? the exchange and it helped us connect then it was a good th...

The "knew how" and "trained" make it sound like introversion and extroversion are abilities/skills and that they are learned. Someone who is extrovert...

If it is what the people one is with need from him/her then that is reason to do it without any? problem, just like if one is comfortable working at a...

One can act like he/she cares without being "outgoing"--without channeling all energy outward. I did not say that any role I am in requires anything. ...

One can be shy and have good interpersonal skills. One can be extroverted and have poor interpersonal skills. Introversion, extroversion and shyness a...

It's not a conspiracy theory. He sheds light on a lot of the politics of evolution, like how when the anti-evolution people were voted off the Kansas ...

Extroversion and introversion are not skills. They are personal preferences. And, yeah, if one prefers to relate to the world one way but is forced to...

Until now everything that I have written in this thread has been a lot of my own observations or a few recollections of what I read many years ago. Ti...

Intuition is the final, deepest layer through which things are filtered.

A government is the institution or set of institutions that people in a group give authority to. Its focus should be on preserving and maintaining the...

To be clear, I have been talking about removing symbols being a tactic employed by parties from outside the communities where the symbols are located....

You are responding to Ken Wilber's words, not my words.

Again, I can't go along with your idea--as expressed in your original post in this thread--that removing symbols from the environment is the path to h...

A witch hunt to try to remove any historical sign of oppression and injustice is not the path to healing, better relations between diverse groups, and...

If the idea is that public resources should not pay for the creation, presentation, storage and preservation of symbols of injustice and oppression, t...

Don't forget that there maybe has never been more opportunities than now to think geographically. GIS software for 3rd graders to play with is probabl...

I don't disagree. If a lot of people have that foundation of knowledge then something else must explain their no-more-than-minimal awareness and appre...

You are distorting my words. I said I don't know how the geography-illiterate think about where things are located. Geography is a science, so if a pe...

I don't want to hijack the thread with something that is a completely different topic, but with that risk I bring up two problems I have had with "obs...

And then the people who got a good education sound alarms about how many other people are science-illiterate; don't believe in evolution; don't know w...

A helpful model is to think of cities as nodes in networks. The corn is grown in this non-urban space. The corn is then sold in that small town. All o...

When you are arriving 10 hours early or something like that to be first in line for Black Friday deals, you don't have time to worry about reducing po...

From this interview: "At this point, you enter the philosophy of science, and the argument is endless. Is there nothing but physical stuff in the univ...

I can't find any excerpt that I could neatly quote here, so I can only direct people to the full essay. But your words remind me of what Wendell Berry...

Reminds me a little of Ken Wilber's concept of interiority.

Don't worry, cities like Cleveland may not even have major sports teams much longer. Just ask San Diego and Oakland, California. They still have the P...

I don't know about every school district, but in the ones that I am familiar with the science of geography is non-existent in the elementary and secon...

No matter what path you are on, no matter what you "believe", no matter what you search for, no matter what approach you take, etc., probably at least...

Judging by the content of the immigration debate in the U.S. the last two decades, I would say, no, 99.9% of people in the U.S. are not aware of push ...

In other words, it will be Black Friday every hour of the day, every day of the year.