Intellectual Archive
Integral Critique of The Secret
April 5, 2007 · Category: Integral, Intellectual
Writing for KenWilber.com, Stuart Davis posts an interesting critique of The Secret, called The Secret: The Spirituality of Narcissism.
Kathy and I have found aspects of The Secret (both the book and the movie) to be ...
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America Ain’t Got No Problems Radical Muslims Can Solve
November 11, 2006 · Category: Intellectual, Politics
Stephen Browne:
During the Second World War, boxer Joe Louis, the "Brown Bomber" served in the US Army as a spokesman, or "propagandist" we'd say today.
Contrary to popular belief today, the 60s generation did not discover ...
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What Has Happened to Mutual Respect?
November 4, 2006 · Category: Intellectual, Politics
I couldn't agree more with Glenn Reynolds:
WOODY ALLEN AND BILLY GRAHAM: The humor, and mutual respect despite obvious disagreement, shown in these clips is the kind of thing we don't see enough of today. And ...
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Fear: How NOT to Manage Complexity
I just finished reading an excellent lecture by Michael Crichton called "Fear, Complexity, and Environmental Management in the 21st Century."
Highly recommended, as it dissects many of the biggest problems humanity as faced (or not faced), ...
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Michael Crichton on Verifying One’s Own Perceptions
September 2, 2006 · Category: Intellectual, Reviews
I'm mid-way through reading Michael Crichton's excellent novel State of Fear. Intrigued by the science in the book, I flipped to the end to check out its rather extensive annotated bibliography.
There I found this ...
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On Preventing Cultish Behavior
August 26, 2006 · Category: Intellectual
My post "What Is an Avatar Master?" drew some good criticism last night from a local friend of mine, David. The following post is largely in reply to his comments.
David: Thank you for taking time ...
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Computers Learning to Drive Cars, Finally
August 19, 2006 · Category: Current Events, Intellectual
Last month, Wired magazine featured a terrific article on the long-elusive goal of developing artificial intelligence smart enough drive cars.
Computers have long been able to see the world. What they have lacked, up to this ...
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What Is an Avatar Master?
July 21, 2006 · Category: Intellectual, Personal
Yesterday I had lunch with someone I met through a social networking web site, who bills himself as an "Avatar Master."
Before meeting with him, I did a tiny bit of research on the net, saw ...
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Meditation and Cognitive Independence
Will Wilkinson has an interesting post titled "Declaration of Cognitive Independence?" in which he talks about the perils of confirmation bias, the process "whereby we seek and find confirmatory evidence in support of already existing ...
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Check Out Jay Allen’s Blog
I recently discovered the bloggings of another Rand-influenced meditator, Jay Andrew Allen.
Yes -- for those of you who remember -- this is the same Jay Allen that was a spirited defender of Leonard Peikoff from ...
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