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I challenge the student of mathematics It appears to me that most people look on math as something with supernatural qualities. I challenge the student of math to develop and post short essays on Internet discussion forums about those fundamental aspects of math that you think people can and...

How can I walk in the shoes of Socrates? The following is an attempt to develop a means for us to empathesize with Socrates. Many decades ago a professor of philosophy told me that “philosophy is about radically critical self-consciousness”. It was thirty years later that this statement...

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Net-worth and self-worth: what is difference? The difference between net worth and self worth to my mind rests on that which is extrinsic and intrinsic to our humanity. Abraham Maslow defined a hierarchy of needs to be: 1) Biological and Physiological (water, food, shelter, air, sex, etc.)...

You can take any sophisticated idea that you wish. What I want is for people to use subject matter that they understand and to take it to the public in the hope that we can arouse the curiosity and appetite for learning by the general public. Perhaps we need a dual track teaching system. We...

I challenge the student of quantum mechanics I am a retired engineer and read QED, a book about Quantum Electro Dynamics (QED), several years ago and in trying to explain light reflection to a friend I discovered that I was not certain about my ideas on this matter. I do not want any...

Scientific vs. Socratic Method: the winner is? Hypothetico-deductive model for scientific method from Wikipedia: “1. Use your experience: Consider the problem and try to make sense of it. Look for previous explanations. If this is a new problem to you, then move to step 2. 2. Form a...

Do we perceive it because it is meaningful? Yes! How does the man with agnosia (loss of ability to perceive the familiar due to brain damage) manage on the street? Quoting such an individual “On the sidewalk all things are slim—those are people; in the middle of the street, everything is very...

Is knowing about symbols and understanding about images? I suspect that both knowledge and understanding are constructed from symbols (words) and images but I also suspect that most of knowledge is constructed of symbols and most of understanding is constructed of images. Let us begin at the...

I would say that natural selection, i.e. evolution, has taken a dramatic turn since the birth of human consciousness. Natural selection produced the human species and the human species has derailed natural selection. World wide the species that survive, including the human species, depends...