Value for value: Please support my efforts. By Alan Mercer, 20 March 2016 Edition 2 Broadcast presentation just under 3 hours (too long to watch) Happiness and Well-being in the UN 2030 Agenda: Achieving a New Vision of Sustainable Development … Continue reading →
Adoption of the Paris Agreement United Nations, Framework Convention on Climate Change | 12 December 2015 Conference of the Parties Twenty-first session Paris, 30 November to 11 December 2015 Agenda item 4(b) Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (decision 1/CP.17) Adoption … Continue reading →
Value for value: Please support my efforts. Re. climate conferences in Paris and Canadian Liberal government’s support of climate change measures. If I was part of a movement that stood up against the “carbon pricing” (that has already been implemented … Continue reading →
I realize now what people mean when they are glorifying “science” and claiming that someone is stupid and anti-science because they don’t believe the media and education system’s version of reality. The “scientific method” doesn’t refer to testing and evaluating … Continue reading →
CASS SUNSTEIN: Choosing Not to Choose: Understanding the Value of Choice (http://newbooksinphilosophy.com/2015/09/01/cass-sunstein-choosing-not-to-choose-understanding-the-value-of-choice-oxford-up-2015/) OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2015 newbooksnetwork.com, Robert Talisse | September 1, 2015 | (can be accessed from iTunes) Very cleverly justifies behavior modification and interference in our choices. As … Continue reading →
Value for value: Please support my efforts. . . . already widespread concern about the possibility of biological and chemical tampering with what has until now been considered the immutable essence of man. Human conduct, some argue, can be predetermined … Continue reading →
Value for value: Please support my efforts. In his 1946 Foreword to Brave New World, Aldous Huxley writes: “This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings. … Continue reading →
Computers with consciousness: Stanley Kubrick Jon Rappoport, NoMoreFakeNews.com | 29 January 2015 Why do I keep hammering on this subject? Because the 21st century is the century of the brain. In research labs all over the world, neuroscientists are working … Continue reading →
Continued from Part 4 Aldous Huxley: Brave New World Revisited Huxley refers to Pavlov’s experiments on animals, in which even the strongest ones display a nervous breakdown after the repeated stress of Pavlov’s cruel experiments (59). He notes also how … Continue reading →
Value for value: Please support my efforts. Continued from Part 7 (Revised: January 3, 2014) Sterilization In Huxley’s novel, the majority of female embryos are sterilized (p. 10). The remaining women, such as one of the main characters, are trained … Continue reading →