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Can Spirituality and Reason Ever Be Reconciled?

The power of strange events to shake skepticism

Dec 19, 2024

Can Spirituality and Reason Ever Be Reconciled?

Dec 19, 2024

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My Great-Grandfather Was the Architect of Quantum Mechanics, but You Probably Don’t Know His Name

The reasons may have been political…

Oct 9, 2024

My Great-Grandfather Was the Architect of Quantum Mechanics, but You Probably Don’t Know His Name

Oct 9, 2024

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Human Rationality is a Myth

The idea that people are, or even can be, rational in their beliefs and behaviour, is a product of The Enlightenment. It is a myth.

Jun 30, 2024

Human Rationality is a Myth

Jun 30, 2024

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Romantic Consumerism is Killing Modern Relationships

How the Internet changed the way we love and relate.

Jul 18, 2024

Romantic Consumerism is Killing Modern Relationships

Jul 18, 2024

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No, we’re not living in a simulation. Here’s why.

The idea that we might be living inside the simulation of some more advanced future civilisation sounds like something a stoner might dream…

Apr 20, 2024

No, we’re not living in a simulation. Here’s why.

Apr 20, 2024

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Richard Dawkins’s Argument That We May Be Alone In the Universe Is Wrong

Here’s why we almost certainly aren’t

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Richard Dawkins’s Argument That We May Be Alone In the Universe Is Wrong Here’s why we almost certainly aren’t

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Grim Tidings

The Real Reason We Consume Stories

How stories bridge the gap between reality and the fictions we believe in

Jan 10

The Real Reason We Consume Stories

Jan 10

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Grim Tidings

All the Sentences ChatGPT Cannot Find

You have something to say that AI never can

Jan 8

All the Sentences ChatGPT Cannot Find

Jan 8

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Falling Through the Web of Meaning

How rationality undermined the mythic illusions we depend on

Dec 27, 2024

Falling Through the Web of Meaning

Dec 27, 2024

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Can Education Save Us From the Coming Dark Age?

Postmodern obstacles to the overcoming of populist barbarism

Dec 11, 2024

Can Education Save Us From the Coming Dark Age?

Dec 11, 2024

Pierz Newton-John

Pierz Newton-John

Writer, coder, former psychotherapist, founding member of The School Of Life Melbourne. Essayist for Dumbo Feather magazine, author of Fault Lines (fiction).

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