Ethics, Inspired by Entropy’s Evil
Ethics is humanity’s confrontation with the unifying cosmic conflict, the immutable expansion of disorder, or entropy. As the material universe harnesses the otherwise ineluctable drift towards chaos, as sentient life harnesses environmental data into meaningful information to exist, humanity harnessed a novel signal. I propose that humanity’s cultural myth began behind the insignia of our…
Language Is a Blanket
the promising journey of life is not a simple dichotomy of selfishness and altruism, or competition and cooperation, or individual and group selection. It is the phenomenon of complex interdependent identities formed along the strong tide towards a chaotic equilibrium. A journey for informational harmony guided by the signals of skin, membranes, pheromones’, and cognitive…
WEIRD Identity
Our mastery of Cultural Evolution separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom, as shown by Henrich in his two monumental tomes, Secret of our Success (Success),1 and most recently in The WEIRDest people in the World (WEIRD).2 Yet I humbly brazenly propose that the path that led us to this powerful tool, as…
A Fantastic Fallacy
How to manage a cognitive Bias that drifts from awful to awesome. There is a scene in the Odyssey frequently referenced in behavioral sciences. Where the eponymous protagonist along with his shipmates sailed past the isle of sirens. Their voices are devilishly enchanting. Mortals that come within earshot are inexorably driven by sonorous beguilement to…
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