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"Out of Our Heads" by Alva Noë

Posted on Sep 6th, 2009 by buddhacious

The Science of Life

Posted on Jul 23rd, 2009 by buddhacious

Daniel Dennett says biology is engineering . He argues that living organisms are machines, flattening the classical Aristotelian difference between natural and artificial. For Aristotle, natural things had their form and purpose internal to themselves,... More »

Dennett, Dawkins, Metaphor, and Much More

Posted on May 24th, 2009 by buddhacious

This is a video I posted that sparked a whole series of responses (from YouTube users Renshank and LordImmolation that you can follow if you go to this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv0so8rbwPA I post it so you... More »

Biological Evolution

Posted on Jun 10th, 2008 by buddhacious

Within the integral community, evolution refers to the ability of consciousness to continually transcend itself as it reaches toward its origin/destination, aka Spirit. For the biological sciences, though, evolution means something much more specific. There... More »

Dennett's Dangerous Idea

Posted on May 16th, 2008 by buddhacious

I am a little more than half way through Daniel Dennett's book about how evolutionary biology provides you with the only meaning your life needs (or at least the only meaning it  can have, regardless... More »

Spellbound: Magic Words and Minds Without Self

Posted on Jul 25th, 2007 by buddhacious

Introduction There was a time when physics, still high on the spirit of the Enlightenment, took seriously the idea that its measurements of the fundamental stuff composing the universe could explain just about everything worth... More »