On the occasion of Darwin’s 200th anniversary, I made a little mind map to get myself thinking about Evolution, natural selection and related topics. I have long been a fan of his book The Origin of Species, having read it once. However, what really got me interested in evolution was an offshoot of the idea [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Ideas’
December 3, 2008
Self-Contradictory, Dichotomous and Dangerous
Questions of identity are some of the oldest questions of all Mankind. Questions of identity spur the essentials of all philosophy. Questions about oneself, one’s environment, one’s likes and dislikes and one’s relationship with others were more fundamental than most questions that came afterwards. Ruminating on these aspects of identity and finding reasons for these [...]
October 26, 2008
A Survey of Nihilist Thought
An intellectual confession that most people inclined towards individual freedom have to make, at some point, is that rejection of all authority, as under Nihilism, is something they could have considered at a point. Those of us who are sane enough to make the realization, that for all progress one needs to rely on the [...]
October 11, 2008
Container-based Identity and Society
Identity seems to be a fluid self-association to things, a sort of container which sits within each person, rather than a container which fits people within it.
Unfortunately, this viewpoint is not always held by people who work on a-priori bases for knowledge, its acquisition, one’s profession and identity. A case in point is India’s caste [...]
October 9, 2008
Music, Intelligence and Abstraction: Three Themes
Music as an extension of one’s intellectual process
The network of neurons that is the human brain has given rise to many logical manifestations which seem more intriguing than the construction of the brain itself. From the standpoint of a psychologist, or more interestingly, a scientist-rationalist-philosopher, it is possible to understand the brain as a creative [...]
