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On Cognitive Dissonance
Have been busy lately, and not so much time to think. Which is good I guess, because my brain is spinning... You take it too much information to handle and it explodes your framework, your "grid" for classifying and dealing with the world. It's exhilarating at first, and then it gets exhausting, because every new fact/opinion about the world has ( Read more... ) -
An education
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/College-for-all-Experts-say-apf-3621490094.html?x=0
I read this article, and I agree. With both sides of the argument. In theory, going to college or university is a mind-opening exploration of the world, and yeah, I think that's wonderful. I think everyone should open their minds and explore. Is that really what ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts on reality
I have a sore throat and my whole body smells like chlorine... But I guess none of that gets in the way of thinking. I was reading 'A Theory of Everything' by Ken Wilber, and one of his examples sent me off on a train of thought.
How real is science? How fundamental? How well can it answer questions about the world? After all, science is objective ( Read more... ) -
Reading material
I was reading Billy Graham yesterday. As in the evangelical Christian Billy Graham. It was one of the books I borrowed from my friend's overflowing bookshelf. And although I enjoyed the first few chapters, and some of his points resonated with me, I found that his ideas about science kept getting in the way.
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The Scientific Method
It was a few months ago that I stumbled on Ken Wilber's Integral philosophy. I'm not sure what brought me to it, except that it may have involved me googling "science and religion unified" or something similar, and finding integrallife.com as one of the top search results. Here is a brief description.
"The Integral Map is an all-inclusive model ( Read more... )