The Tribesman Who Facebook Friended Me
He was a hunter-gatherer from remote Papua New Guinea. And now he was in my feed. How did this happen? An article I wrote for Salon.com …
He was a hunter-gatherer from remote Papua New Guinea. And now he was in my feed. How did this happen? An article I wrote for Salon.com …
This isn’t a socio-political treatise or a cynical comment on the state of my home nation, it’s a post about the psychology of copying. Over …
Ideas are like living things. They operate in the busy cultural wilderness of our communal minds, symbiotic with millions of other Ideas. They are unconsciously …
Several centuries ago, a short, ugly Frenchman, Rene Descartes, proclaimed that the human body and the human mind live in two different worlds – that …
In fact, what are ideas? That’s the preoccupation of this blog. Are ideas divine sparks of inspiration? Are they the accidental by-products of our weird …
Author: Jonnie