BBC News – A Point of View: Why short men make better husbands
BBC News - A Point of View: Why short men make better husbands.
Speech: Military Action in Iraq – elizabethmaymp.ca – October 6, 2014
Well said. And the reminder that the road to hell is paved with good intentions is certainly timely.
What is also interesting is that the more nuanced good intentions Ms. May articulates so well are even more implicated in toxic outcomes.
Speech: Military Action in Iraq – elizabethmaymp.ca – October 6, 2014.
Evolution of Modern Humans: Neandertals
Lots of examples of the conceit that intelligence actively does stuff involving understanding and choosing.
All blue-eyed people can be traced back to one ancestor who lived 10,000 years ago near the Black Sea | Daily Mail Online
Twin Life: Sharing Mind and Body – Doc Zone
A graphic account of the emergent nature of consciousness, sense of self and identity.
BBC News – Sense of smell ‘may predict lifespan’
The evidence that life (and consciousness) is an emergent phenomenon keeps piling up. Richard Dawkins talked about extended phenotypes - beaver bodies + beaver dams making beavering possible - and I think this is an excellent observation. But if the process of extending phenotypes continues and continues eventually the rationale for talking about phenotypes (and genotypes) in the first place disappears. .
Then we have a process metaphysics!