Life Philosophy – What is it and why should we care?
Some of you may have noticed the category ‘life philosophy’ on this site. I feel that it deserves clarification and explaining as to what it about. Life philosophy is personal Continue Reading
La Mettrie’s Machine Man
Just to clarify, we begin with Descartes’ dualistic Cartesian animal-machine idea (which was popular at the time) which viewed all animals, except humanity, as automatons and complex machines without an Continue Reading
Remembering La Mettrie the philosopher physician
Everyone who studies or has an interest in philosophy has heard of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Voltaire, Nietzsche, Hegel, Marx and modern philosophers too like Daniel Dennet. I like Continue Reading
There’s no such thing as entropy free lunch
What is the difference between a living organism and a chair? Well a chair can maintain its state of equilibrium without the need for any help from its environment. Continue Reading
The Technique of Naturalistic Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a technique used to for many reasons such as to improve mental health and wellbeing and to help one think more clearly. One definition of mindfulness from the Continue Reading
The Trump Card of Modern Nihilism – Entropy
Entropy is as fundamental a law of physics as the fundamental forces of nature, that being: Strong and Weak Nuclear forces, Electromagnetism and Gravity. It is the motive force Continue Reading
What is Entropy?
This article is a preliminary for The Trump Card of Modern Nihilism – Entropy The word entropy is Greek for ‘inside transformation’ which is why it makes sense in thermodynamics, Continue Reading
The Universe is Nihilist
Introduction One non-theistic school of philosophy which I can think of that discusses in great length life’s relation to the cosmos; is the philosophy of nihilism. Succinctly, a nihilist Continue Reading