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Would IT have happened had Greenspan studied SGCS? Allan Greenspan is the former director of the Federal Reserve; “IT” is the giant financial boondoggle that almost sent the globe into another Great Depression. Greenspan admitted that the “model” he was trusting was mistaken. The model in...

Are you saying that most Americans are afraid that if they get an intellectual life that they will have to then become responsible adults?

Why does the challenge of becoming intellectually sophisticated frighten everyone so?

Why does the challenge of becoming intellectually sophisticated frighten everyone so? First, I will say that our (American) culture is very anti-intellectual and therein, I think, lays the rub. We are anti-intellectual because those who control public policy (Corporate America) keep us...

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The Cost of Stayin Alive! I once asked a professor of philosophy “what is philosophy about?” he responded “philosophy is a radically critical self-consciousness”. It took me thirty years to understand this statement. I shall take a “radically critical self-conscious” look at the question of...

Human Cognition is an Embodied Activity We have all grown up to consider thought to be primarily a matter of language and propositions. We have not generally been taught this notion explicitly but have acquired it through social osmosis (picked it up without conscious effort because it is a...

Objectivity is Our Shared Subjectivity Fingerprint and now DNA analysis are what I would call the epitome of objective truth. I say this because these two human characteristics are defining evidence upon which we judge a person guilty and thereby subject to the death penalty. Fingerprints...

Industrial Revolution: The Tipping point? We live in two very different worlds; a world of technical and technological order and clarity, and a world of personal and social disorder and confusion. We are increasingly able to solve problems in one domain and increasingly endangered by our...

Does peer group networking, facilitated by hand-held gadgets, enhance the probability for the following kind of group behavior? The following quotes come from the Washington Post article: Kids Gone Wild, Parents Gone Missing by By Richard Cohen Tuesday, April 6, “It is either significant...

Hi-Tech Society: Race to the Bottom? Will our hi-tech hand-held gadgets lead us to becoming a less sophisticated society? It appears to me that such gadgets seem to dramatically increase the interaction within the adolescent peer group. I suspect that this interaction tends to create a...

What is Courage? Courage has two components; the ontological (body in action) and the conceptual (mind in action). Paul Tillich, “Apostle to the intellectuals”, attempts to provide a new theological vocabulary by which modern wo/man might deal with the human situation. Tillich informs us...

Concepts We Live By Most of us know “metaphor” only as an aspect of language that allows us to comprehend one concept in terms of another concept that is known to us. We think of metaphor as a matter of words only; not as a matter of thought and action. SGCS (Second Generation Cognitive...

Anger is an emotion. I once took a college course in acting. Acting 101 informs me that an actor is more effective it s/he makes the motions associated with an emotion than if that actor tries to first create the feeling and then the action will follow. Emotions equal instinct. First...

Is anger a sign of righteousness? Webster informs us that righteous is “acting in accord with divine or moral law”. We often see US citizens, in our streets and byways, expressing their anger at certain actions taken by our government. On occasion this anger is directed at Big Bankers or...

I suspect that ideology shapes our styles of interpretaion today. There appear to be many types of ideologies and I think that the Internet provides a convenient venue for the ‘ad hoc ideology’. In his book “Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego” Freud writes about the...

Sancho I am not aware of the work Mikhail Bakhtin. My interest focuses more on cognitive science that uses our language as a means to examine how we conceptualize our experiences. The conversion of these concepts into a symbol, a word, and the communication of that symbol to another, which...

I think that you are right on the mark! One very serious problem is that our educational system has taught us something about debate but has left us totally ignorant of dialogic. I think that our first step is for a significant percentage of our population to become sufficiently...

STOP ARGUING!! I cannot count the number of times that my mother would shout “STOP ARGUING!” at one or more of my siblings and me. Years later I learned that ‘argument’ had more meaning than was contained in those youthful experiences. I obtained an engineering degree and then later...