A World Made of Stories?: Wednesday February 16, 2011
“The universe is made of stories, not atoms”: discuss…
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The Myth of Re-enchantment: Wednesday December 15, 2010
Enchantment, disenchantment and the mind’s spinning of stories.
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Judgement and Experience: Saturday August 21, 2010
Testing judgements against the fine-grain of experience.
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Ethics is like navigation... stories are like the sea.: Friday November 27, 2009
Thoughts on storytelling and ethics.
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The Weaving and the Unweaving: Monday August 31, 2009
Telling stories about telling stories.
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Settling: Monday August 3, 2009
The books are sorted, the cat is asleep on his beanbag, and I’m back to my meditation cushions.
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Clamour, and the Love of the World: Monday June 22, 2009
Religion, science and the clamour of the world.
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The Wisdom of the Ancients?: Friday May 29, 2009
Golden ages, and the magnificence of the past.
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Get Real...: Friday May 15, 2009
Some thoughts on tragic storytelling.
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A Problem with Bandwidth: Friday February 20, 2009
A few late-night thoughts on consciousness
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Lies in Which not Everything is False: Wednesday September 10, 2008
Stories – they are nothing but a pack of lies.
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Self Evident Experience?: Friday February 23, 2007
What’s going on… and what we think is going on…
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Life Without Free Will: Friday September 1, 2006
The lights are on, but there’s nobody at home…
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