Probably the most telling 'data'is that in the 52 years since I left school the world's population has more than doubled. This is unsustainable. I subscribe to the Gia theory - that the planet is a self regulating entity that will counter threats to it's life support systems. I think Covid is...
You are making assumptions about consciousness which are almost certainly not true. Even scientists are now questioning our previous assumptions about consciousness - ie that it's something that happens in the mind - when the evidence for this is slight at best. To be fair Descarte - who was a...
'Touchy' - nah just knockabout jousting. The existentialists were right - for once - existence is absurd. Our attempts to rationalise render it ridiculous.
It's interesting that as traditional religions have declined [ion this country at least] new ones such as veganism and environmentalism have emerged. Also interesting is that the self righteousness and intolerance which followers of the old religions demonstrated is equally evident amongst the...