Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Antifragile (2012), by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, introduces and explains hormesis, or the way that some systems benefit from the chaos and stress that normally would destroy fragile things.
Daniel Sanderson, founder of planksip®, bridges classical philosophy with modern science. His book Re-Imagining Plato explores anthropology, philosophy, and neuroscience, redefining Plato for today.
Antifragile (2012), by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, introduces and explains hormesis, or the way that some systems benefit from the chaos and stress that normally would destroy fragile things.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book Skin in the Game (2018) argues that balancing risk and reward is essential to creating a fair society, and that a lack of such balance creates a world fraught with unnecessary complexity and risk.
Fictional stories show how hypothetical people handle hypothetical situations. Theodicy reconciles the problem of evil with free will. Dostevski's Ivan returned his ticket to heaven. Many people hold on to their believes of... what were we talking about? Hick's soul making harshness of life Here is...
P1 whatever begins to exist has a cause P2 the universe began to exist C therefore it the universe has a cause? Why is William Lane Craig identified in the above video as a philosopher? I suggest the appropriate title would be a theologian. No this does NOT lead to...
Alrighty then, the need for intellect is over. In the beginning, there was pain. In the end, there will be pain. In the middle, we will survive. How we experience pain is a group effort....
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny....
The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest structure in the world from 2560 BC to 1311 ADAccordingly to Wikipedia, the Great Pyramid of Giza was initially built at 146.5 metres (481 feet), and was the tallest man-made structure [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_...
Epistimology is the theory, specifically the nature and scope of knowledge. Do you believe in truth? If you adequetely know something to be true how do you differentiate that from belief? How does knowledge relate to truth? How does knowledge relate to belief? How is justification different from truth and...
Epistimology is the theory, specifically the nature and scope of knowledge. Do you believe in truth? If you adequetely know something to be true how do you differentiate that from belief? How does knowledge relate to truth? How does knowledge relate to belief? How is justification different from truth and...
Chances are, Steven Pinker would not use the metaphysical, "meditations" in describing his best attempt at listing the cognitive faculties and the core intuitions on which they are based. They are as follows... * An intuitive physics, which we use to keep track of how objects fall, bounce, and...
From Pensées, Blaise Pascal 1660, Trotter trans. 233. Infinite—nothing.—Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. Unity joined to infinity adds nothing to it, no more than one foot to an...
The problem of evil is the focus for J.L. Mackie in his 1955 essay entitled; Evil and Omnipotence. From the beginning of Mackie's arguement, reason is something that is suspended to sustain belief. I find it comical and at times alarming that "Dr." William Lane...
In The Argument from Cosmological Fine Tuning (2012), Roger White asserts we would not be alive if the dials had not been set at very precise values and that this gives us sufficient reason to think it very likely that somebody set the dials at those values. Is he right?...
> There is a point in your life when you realize certain things are just never going to be." — Dr. Corey Elliot...
> Banish fate from free will and embrace (neo)determinism as the dogma of father time and mother nature! So it shall Be!” — et alia...
> Knowledge is the greatest gift, it's always looking for a way out of the present." — Dr. Cory Elliot...
> I can be better than that, just not right now." — Dr. Cory Elliot...
The p(x) philosophy is Big Data Determinism. Extracted from my mind, I self identify as a Determined Compatibilist on the stage of life. My philosophy advances thinking on the plurality of information, should we regulate or restrict information if it means the destruction of the species? A Marshall Law...
For instance, on page XXX, the statement, "blah, blah, blah, should xyz", highlights an ethics of…...
Searching for “should” will return a micro anthology on the Ethics of planksip...
Should is the watchword for ought, and for me, ought implies ethics. Digital book readers arm your Ctrl+F fingers, traditional book readers ready your highlighters....