Jay Matthews

Any experience of love holds within it a dimension of dependence. In fact, dependence is an essential ingredient of connection. But it’s a producer of terrific anxiety, because it implies that the one we love wields power over us. This is the power to love us, but also to abandon us. Fear—of judgment, of rejection, of loss—is embedded in romantic... See more

In this age of utopian technologies, we can design mechanical limbs for amputees and chemically engineer happiness for depressives. But should we? From the fluoride in our water to genetically modified babies, scientific advances pose complex new ethical questions. We ask discuss the major bioethical issues of our time. Is philosophy braced for... See more

The stress of safety, poverty, and loss stops us from seeing and feeling, it leaves us alienated from ourselves and the world. The four levels of alienation mentioned in this talk are alienation from : 1. Our work, 2. Others, 3. Nature, 4. Ourselves.

These are powerful questions and I the version of it I would ask you today is:

1. What are you most curious about?


2. What is your unique perspective or way of helping in this domain?


3. Given the infinite resources available to you today, why are you doing nothing about this?

"let's embrace these bulging urban brains, these massed flowerings of opportunity and potential. The frontiers of exploration have spread from deserts, forests and mountain ranges to include centres of human population whose increasing scale demands new research, new ideas, new policies; fresh symbolism . Urban jungles are greener than we think.... See more

The internet will not survive.

Through fantasy we repair, compensate, and transform. For a few moments, we rise above the reality of life and, subsequently, the reality of death.

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