The Dethroning of Man in the Western Worldview

The Internet is a manifestation of this rebellious reformation: it empowers its users and allows them to fully express their individuality, in full sight of the entire world; it removes layers of agents, intermediaries, and gatekeepers; and it encourages the Little Man to dream and to act on his or her dreams. The decentralized technology of the Network and the invention of the hyperlink allow users to wield the kind of power hitherto reserved only to those who sought to disenfranchise, neutralize, manipulate, interpellate, and subjugate them.

Is God Necessary?

If adopt an expansive view of God – one that covers all possibilities and impossibilities – we can argue that God’s existence is necessary.

Why Do We Love Sports?

Sports cater to multiple psychological and physiological deep-set needs. In this they are unique: no other activity responds as do sports to so many dimensions of one’s person, both emotional, and physical.

Why Do We Love Pets?

There is no denying that most people want their pets and love them. They are attached to them and experience grief and bereavement when they die, depart, or are sick.

The Dialogue of Dreams

Dreams are by far the most mysterious phenomenon in mental life.

The Shattered Identity

Dan has no recollection of being Dan. Dan does not remember murdering Jack. It seems as though Dan’s very identity has been erased. Yet, Dan is in sound mind and can tell right from wrong. Should Dan be held (morally and, as a result, perhaps legally as well) accountable for Jack’s murder?

Intuition

Intuition is supposed to be a form of direct access. Yet, direct access to what?

God and Science

The locus of God’s hypothesized existence is, clearly and exclusively, in the minds of believers.

Eugenics and the Future of the Human Species

The Nazis regarded the murder of the feeble-minded and the mentally insane – intended to purify the race and maintain hereditary hygiene – as a form of euthanasia.

The Complexity of Simplicity

Complexity does not, therefore, imply the existence of a designer or a design. Complexity does not imply the existence of intelligence and sentient beings.