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Strato, at #26:   To be fair, a lot of that post of mine is oversimplified, and honestly a bit indulgent. I think I should chop it up more in future.   I don’t think he is implying that the Beijing’s demand for c […]

Zeuglodon Beta #23, That’s a great post. Plenty there. To agree with.You’ve been thinking. Robert Sapolsky in Determined, in the section Back Centuries – the Sort of People You Come From, p 74, compares the East […]

Michael 100 #23, In the engaging interview on YouTube from last year, linked below, Yuval Harari shares that he meditates two hours a day. This was recorded before the conflict culminating from the massacre by […]

Strato, at #22:   Books like Sapolksy’s with the neuroscience, endocrinology, behaviourism, and all that he draws upon and synthesises, can and must inform judges’ determinations in the criminal justice syst […]

Strato #19   Yuval Harari meditates two hours a day, at home in Israel or abroad.    Do you have a source for that information?  The reason I ask is that I’m reading his Sapiens for a book club.  In chapte […]

Zeuglodon Beta #21, Books like Sapolksy’s with the neuroscience, endocrinology, behaviourism, and all that he draws upon and synthesises, can and must inform judges’ determinations in the criminal justice system. […]

Strato at #19:   I have taken note of Sapolsky’s critique of compatibilist Daniel Dennett who claims that we can improve our position in the marathon race of life by volition, by showing good old grit. And if we […]

Michael 100 says: @#18 says Let’s remember Christopher Hitchens’ words that fascism is the political arm of the right wing of the Catholic Church.  The Orthodox and the Catholics are first cousins in both reli […]

Michael #100, Interesting and well researched article, Michael. At least its author Meagan Saliashvili seems herself to be above the mania. Because mania is what it looks like among the believing […]