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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289623000156?via%3DihubAs I was expecting, tests have shown a significant decline in IQ scores in the US, measured from 2006 onward, most significantly, in 18-22 year olds… I suspect this is primarily due to...

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https://youtu.be/tl1eOLXq-vw1:00:00 onward: “Of course her use of “I” is premised (predicated) on memory, so there’s also a narrative “I” in place, of course. However, her body is »lost from her memory of herself; she is reported to...

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21:50 onwards: …and if war were impossible, mankind could go ahead. If war is not impossible… »every advance in scientific technique, means an advance in mass murder, and is therefore »undesirable. Once world peace was achieved, it would be just the...

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When we use electronic devices today, we ‘opt out’ of privacy by default, without truly understanding how fundamental it is to mental health, creativity, and freedom. In this video I discuss the problem of privacy’s disappearance in our modern...

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If we were asked whether we would prefer to have our beliefs and opinions comfortingly validated, or whether we would like to experience insight instead… many of us would select insight. This is the question that’s always before us in consciousness, yet we...