How can I logically manage to deceive myself? Buddhist thought offers a way out of the philosophical paradox Ironically, then, Buddhists are inclined to see belief in a single substantial self as the severest, most dangerous instance of self-deception. This immediately raises the question: if there is no-self, who can be the subject of self-deceit? […]
Digital Identity Is Broken. Here’s a Way to Fix It
The bedrock of trust is a human community with frequent positive interactions – The Entangled Social Self. Most people today suffer from a strange sort of psychosis: we are uncertain of our identity. For although we are (mostly) certain of who we are in our own minds, the identity we use to interact with the […]
What Saliva Reveals About North America
Anticipation of the near future gene census to understand the human gene pool as our common wealth. What do you do with 770,000 tubes of saliva collected from over 3 million AncestryDNA customers? Ancestry scientists have an unusual answer: Create a ground-breaking map of North America’s history-based diversity using the genetic data from the analysis […]
The Hot New Millennial Housing Trend Is a Repeat of the Middle Ages
Re-imagining households and family life – is an imperative for the future Communal living is hardly a departure from tradition—it’s a return to how humans have been making their homes for thousands of years. For most of human history, people were hunter-gatherers. They lived in large camps, depending on one another for food, childcare, and […]
Sorry, Y’All—Humanity’s Nearing an Upgrade to Irrelevance
A short interview with the author of Homo Deus: a Brief History of Tomorrow. HUMANITY HAS HAD astonishing success alleviating famine, disease, and war. (It might not always seem that way, but it’s true.) Now, Homo sapiens is on the brink of an upgrade—sort of. As we become increasingly skilled at deploying artificial intelligence, […]