The Artist and Metaphysical Rebellion
Existential Isolation and the Limits of Language Much of our uniquely lived human experience involves our capacity for subjective and self-conscious perception – our experience of the world, of...
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In the last post exploring language and consciousness, I tried to argue that the human being is not just another animal programmed by evolution and layers of operant conditioning, but one that...
View ArticleDefining the Human Animal (2 of 2)
In the last post I began sketching out a plausible theory regarding the evolution of consciousness. I suggested that our phylogenetic history led us down a dead-end path of painful contradiction – the...
View ArticleThe Artist and Metaphysical Rebellion
Existential Isolation and the Limits of Language Much of our uniquely lived human experience involves our capacity for subjective and self-conscious perception – our experience of the world, of...
View ArticleDefining the Human Animal (1 of 2)
In the last post exploring language and consciousness, I tried to argue that the human being is not just another animal programmed by evolution and layers of operant conditioning, but one that...
View ArticleDefining the Human Animal (2 of 2)
In the last post I began sketching out a plausible theory regarding the evolution of consciousness. I suggested that our phylogenetic history led us down a dead-end path of painful contradiction – the...
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