Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
governing values of use and pleasure.
Iain McGilchrist • The Master and His Emissary
It helped that the simultaneous development of digital technology made it easier for people to accept the idea that we can enter into a cognitive partnership with an object. Smartphones, tablets and the internet all blur the ‘skull and skin’ boundary, and the Australian philosopher Ned Block, according to Chalmers, ‘likes to say that the thesis was
... See moreRoland Allen • The Notebook
Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
None of the population-level differences we observe should be thought of as fixed, essential, or immutable features of nations, tribes, or ethnic groups. To the contrary, this book is about how and why our psychology has changed over history and will continue to evolve.
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
= A continuum of software-based human-level autonomy and empathy as determined by consensus of a small group of experts in matters of human consciousness.
Martine Rothblatt PhD • Virtually Human: The Promise—and the Peril—of Digital Immortality
Phenomenology puts our humanity to work completely.
Steven DeLay • Before God: Exercises in Subjectivity
James Hillman
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
Ap Dijksterhuis and Loran Nordgren,