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Pierz Newton-John

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.

5d ago

Human Rationality is a Myth

5d ago

Pierz Newton-John

Embedded Suffering: The Long Arc of American Exploitation from Columbus to Bezos

The world as we know it is on the brink of collapse. The indications of this — massive species extinction, climate disaster, epidemic…

Jun 23

Embedded Suffering: The Long Arc of American Exploitation from Columbus to Bezos

Jun 23

Pierz Newton-John

Multiverses and Simulations: a Modern Crisis

The rise of the multiverse and abstract conceptions of reality in both science and culture reflects a tectonic psychosocial transformation

Jun 17

Multiverses and Simulations: a Modern Crisis

Jun 17

Pierz Newton-John

Living in the Great Explosion

We are living in times of unprecedented change. Never before in the history of the world has there been a time like the one we are living…

Jun 12

Living in the Great Explosion

Jun 12

Pierz Newton-John

The Extraordinary Life of Leonard Cohen

This article was first published in Dumbo Feather magazine in 2017

Jun 9

The Extraordinary Life of Leonard Cohen

Jun 9

Pierz Newton-John

The Enlightened Plumber: Grounding the Spiritual

An aeon ago, at the start of my adult life, I dropped out of a science-law degree and entered a tumultuous period of spiritual seeking.

Jun 1

The Enlightened Plumber: Grounding the Spiritual

Jun 1

Pierz Newton-John

Tender or Tough: Revisiting an Old Dichotomy in the Age of Polarisation

The great American psychologist and philosopher William James, in his 1907 book Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking…

May 27

Tender or Tough: Revisiting an Old Dichotomy in the Age of Polarisation

May 27

Pierz Newton-John

Something for Nothing

There was a time when I was about nineteen or twenty when my older brother Jeremy and I became close again after years of…

May 24

Something for Nothing

May 24

Pierz Newton-John

How Long Will the Human Race Last? Reframing the Doomsday Argument

There’s a strange argument in philosophy called the Doomsday Argument. It attempts make a probabilistic prediction of the total number of…

May 22

How Long Will the Human Race Last? Reframing the Doomsday Argument

May 22

Pierz Newton-John

Is There Only One Mind in the Universe?

When René Descartes, in an attempt to establish a solid foundation for knowledge, meditated on what it is possible to doubt, he famously…

May 16

Is There Only One Mind in the Universe?

May 16

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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