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Today morning we let Mr Squirrel free in our garden. Almost immediately an eagle swooped down on it. My daughter’s loud cry made the eagle fly back. It was sheer luck. This cutie is not able to run away.
We tried to put it on tree trunks to allow him to get some practice in...
I like the question “Who is this "we" that can rebel against genes (biology) and memes (ideology)?”
But then, you say “We are now endowed with the spirit that guided evolution to its final grand creation: the Jew, and the Christian.”
The first question is good. A gene machine (the creator god...
Once the near unconscious and injured in the leg squirrel was brought home we could not leave it outside in the open.
A vet has taken care and asked us to keep it only for 3 days till the medicine is finished. Before that I cannot leave it out in the open.
I use heavy-duty gloves to handle...
A grievously injured and unconscious squirrel brought home by my daughter is now occupying our hearts. It has been treated by a vet and now should live.
Squirrel probably has a paw fractured and although much better now yet cannot climb up a wall or tree comfortably. I am worried whether we...
Marx and Engels did not think that State Communism (as it later happened in USSR or China) would be real Communism or that such system would be stable. Communism is about attainment of classless and stateless society. It may remain a high unattainable utopia.
An isolated state communism is...
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The question remains: is the body the subject or is it an object of consciousness?
(This is nothing new.)
According to the linked Big Think article, objective reality exists but brain filters information in conformity to natural selection. The article says “Studies suggest that our brains warp sensory data as soon as we collect it.”
The problem, as I see it, is that the...