Who Am I? (And Who Are You?)
Antonio Damasio is a neuroscientist who has spent his life researching the functioning of the brain. His research…
Category: reality
American Psycho?
In his book, The Protest Psychosis, psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl examines the incidence and diagnosis of schizophrenia in the United…
Suffering…what is it good for?
Evil causes suffering and evil is preventable, but even in a paradisiacal world without evil, suffering would still exist.…
Search For Truth
In Plato‘s Republic, he asks us to imagine a Cave in which prisoners live from birth. These prisoners…
Search For Truth
In Plato‘s Republic, he asks us to imagine a Cave in which prisoners live from birth. These prisoners…
Unique Reality and the Unique Self
In the 1940s psychologists Donald Snygg and Arthur W. Combs introduced ‘phenomenal field theory.’ The idea was borrowed…
The Laughter of the Gods
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. (1) Knowledge…