𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕖

Abstract: This essay aims to join the conversation of animal theory of mind. I lament that until we better understand the role of emotion in animal perceptions and memory storage, we appear incapable of finding sufficient evidence to suggest we can attribute to animals anything more than submentalising processes. I... [Read More]

In the film “Character Formation in Different Cultures” narrated by anthropologist Margaret Mead, the viewer is presented with babies being bathed in three different cultures. Of particular interest is the way the first culture immediately sets itself apart from the other two, occurring down the banks of the Sepik river... [Read More]

Man is that being in whom highest spirit and lowest matter are linked together by a special intelligence. We can envision him as a living peak for the three wavelengths of evolution to converge: spirit, matter, and the linking intellect. Man is the one who unifies the self, the not-self,... [Read More]

You can write ‘I have a brain,’ yet you cannot say whether ‘I’ IS your brain or is somehow IN your brain or even caused BY your brain. Although your education has taught you the correct manner of forming sentences, your ability to comprehend the product of your action is... [Read More]

When we utilise metaphor, we take two distinctly unrelated objects, and transfer qualities from one to the other. In early Nietzsche, metaphor is especially tied to the general notion of truth. This is not because truth is arrived at by means of metaphor, e.g., when Shakespeare pines that his lover... [Read More]