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Mind Press, My Top Goodreads for the week, Uncategorized
Mind Press #3
The folly of Marxism: Alienation and coercion of workers under capitalism
Enslaved by Capital: Why Marx thought capitalism exploits workers
The failure of development theories in explaining the wealth and poverty of nations
The Decolonization of Science. A Review of Okere’s Essay ‘Is There One Western Science?’
Nietzsche and Resentment: On the true origins of morality
Junior the Pharisee: Lessons on legalism from Black-ish
How to Change the World: The way of Jesus; and the way of Marx
How the Cape became a colony
How Absurdity arises in an unreasonable world: Reading Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus
Goodreads for the week 05.02.2017
The Resurrection of Jesus: Myth or History?
Reading Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus: On the paradoxes of the mind when making truth claims
The Myth of Jesus: Discovering the History Behind Faith II
The Myth of Jesus: Discovering the History Behind Faith
G.O.D. (Gaining One’s Definition): Common on Religion, Truth and God
The Personality of the foetus: How personhood begins at conception
Is Artificial Intelligence an Existential Threat to Humanity? The Problem of Computers and Mental States
Is Artificial Intelligence an Existential Threat to Humanity? Making sense of artificial consciousness
Why do Christians eat shrimp? The problem of picking and choosing which Old Testament laws to follow
Life’s irreducible structure: Can life evolve from chemicals?
The Cartesian ghost in the machine: The origins of the mind-body problem
Debugging the genetic program: The myth of DNA as the blueprint of life
Good Philosophy has skin in the game
René Descartes on critical thinking and avoiding error in judgments
My Top Goodreads for the week
Photograph: I know why the “Sunbird” sings
Italian fascist dictator, Mussolini, on being a consistent moral relativist
Life is Context: The Nature of Gene Regulation
Evolution’s time problem – New ways of regulating existing genes
Evolution’s time problem – waiting for genetic change
Evolution’s search problem -Can evolution navigate protein space?
Evolution’s search problem – Searching through protein sequence space for genetic novelty Part 2
Evolution’s search problem – searching through protein sequence space for genetic novelty Part 1
Stephen Jay Gould on the meaning of life in an evolved world
Blackness as an ethical symbol
Will Durant on the pleasure of philosophy
Is morality an evolutionary instinct?
