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Transnational Empathy and Compassion: From the Highest to the Lowest in Suffering
Empathy is often expected to flow from an individual or group that suffers less, or not at all, toward an individual or group that suffers more[1]. This seems intuitive when reading definitions of empathy…
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Edgar Morin’s Paradigm of Complexity
In moments of polarization, an entire nation can be subjected to a deeply negative perception, one that may lead to—or be accompanied by—atrocities against its people. Edgar Morin understood this well. He refused to…
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Morality, Language, and the Brain’s Spatial Bias
The word “reality” and the adjective “real” might be among the most widely used terms to describe the whole human experience of the world and the fundamental structure of the world, regardless of our…
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Consciousness: Knitting Threads of Our Experience
After reading Daniel Dennett’s greatest book, Consciousness Explained, I conceived the idea of knitting as a metaphor for consciousness. Consciousness can happen in multiple degrees, from a lack of acknowledgement or control to intense…
Philosophy · Psychology