Status
It’s not the drive for high status that is damaging or degrading. That we have such a drive is just a fact about human nature. It’s how we manifest that drive, what we do to assert status and how, that is important.
Bill Meacham, Ph.D.
What's What: Philosophical Writings Bill Meacham got his college and university degrees in philosophy and then left that field to make his living as a programmer, software designer, project manager and requirements analyst. But he never quit thinking about the nature of reality and his place in it, the nature of human beings and how it makes sense to live our lives.
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Cognitive Phenomenology
The debate is whether such a thing exists. I find it peculiar because it seems to me quite obvious that it does, but apparently some people find it equally obvious that it does not.
Daniel Dennett, Existentialist?
Organisms Are Not Machines
An Impeccable Death
Reassessing Morality
Ways to Say "Should"
On Faith
A Whiteheadian Solution to the Combination Problem
Do Plants Have Goals?
An unhelpful idiom
Arguing For God
The Most Important Thing to Know
The Good
Is Science a Religion?
Teleological Evolution
Being Immortal
A Finely Tuned Universe
Life Has No Meaning. So What?
In Defense of Panpsychism
Self After Death
Simone de Beauvoir: A Philosophy of Liberation
What do you do with a peak experience?
Learning from Zarathustra
Some Observations on C. S. Peirce
Pragmatism and The Good
The Soul is a Point Of View
The Not-Quite-Rational Animal
Soul Function
More About Function
Sentient Beings
Mental Causation
Mondragon: Reinventing Humanity
