Thoughts from My Head
The article explores Aquinas's moral philosophy, contrasting synderesis and conscientia, while investigating the origins of moral judgments through instinct, reflection, and the role of suffering in shaping ethical understanding.
One of the most exciting things of the last 25-years is the huge increase in knowledge about early humans. This often seems absent from not only debates on migration, but also textbooks and popular cultural narratives. There’s lots we know now, that we didn’t (widely) know when I was 20: Our main new information source … Continue reading Quick Post On Humans
Responses to Nick Cave’s prompt reveal that joy arises from connections, nature, art, and mindfulness. While some actively seek joy, others find it unexpectedly, often intertwined with sorrow and personal experiences.
An excellent Bath Digital Festival for 2025. In true BDF mode, I got AI to help me write up the festival - it still took an hour and is my well-being any better?
What do Hannah Arendt's report of the Adolf Eichmann trial "Eichmann in Jerusalem" and Gitta Sereny's interviews with Franz Stangl, "Into That Darkness" tell us about how individuals are able to facilitate mass murder?
One big problem is the turnover of emotive content. By thinking in logarithms over space and time we can better picture the effects of our actions.
This post began as a stream of consciousness Twitter thread that I've retrofitted into a blog post. As is always the case, both the political left and right see truths about the markets. The left is correct that money and trade reduces interpersonal prosociality (increased in-group "lovin’"). The right is correct that money and trade … Continue reading Thinking About Kinship & Society
Locality. It constrains with ubiquity. But why are we unable to see it?
Existential “meaning” is partly the telling of a story featuring ourselves that is available and consistent with our higher-level representations of the world. It is not, generally, rational; it is more a narrative correlated with a feeling of “selfness” and “correctness”.
Toxic sentiment in society doesn’t arise from a vacuum. History shows that it tends to follow a perceived threat to a way of live, a reaction to change. You cannot remove the toxicity without addressing the underlying issues. But what are these?
Robotic Ape 