Essays
More-or-less recent:
Ten Things You Need to Know About the Infowar
Or, are we in post-reality yet? The infowar as the new class war, how leaks affect
organizational i.q., etc.
More on various subjects at c-Blog
Less recent:
Thanks to our forebears, many of the answers to big-picture questions sit in our museums and libraries just waiting to be found. Of course, the real trick is not just finding the answers but figuring out how to apply them. The essays listed below constituted my attempt to share some of my working hypotheses as of 2000.
I
tried to write in a way that would be easily understandable even
to people with no schooling in the matters discussed. Beyond that, I can only apologize for the broken links or lack of authority, and add that these essays were written in time spared from a lot of other efforts.
Except as may be otherwise noted, most of the essays
were written in 2000 (and most of the links are as
of that year).
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Cells
and Systems |
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Entities,
life processes,
repression within individuals
or groups, diversity,
efficiency, justice, founding
principles
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The
Arts and Literature
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What
Can We Know?
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What
Do We Mean by “Meaning”?
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The
Meaning of Life
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How Can We Define Good
and Bad?
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Governmental
and Economic Systems
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Free
markets, dictatorships, transparency and accountability, checks and balances, corporate structure,
the media, and other matters
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Miscellaneous
Other Systemic Issues |
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Tort
reform, work hours, child care, various fundamental
rights, capital punishment, cloning and
abortion, and other matters |
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