tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-272511362011-08-08T22:45:56.616-07:00Celebrating rational and critical thinking, which we believe is what Asimov would have hoped to seeAu Yong, Haw Yeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232543608752407908noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27251136.post-1151463184286359252006-06-27T18:31:00.000-07:002006-07-27T10:38:17.720-07:00

There is growing consensus in the scientific community that several psychological problems that afflict humans can also appear in animals. If the mind, and the self-awareness that goes with it, is what distinguishes us from other animals, and if it is shown that the minds of animals are similar enough to ours to share certain psychological problems, does that not negate our uniqueness?To quote

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A free school in New York believes that students, right from grade school kids, should be the one designing their own curriculum. LinkComing from a country where rote-learning is highly emphasized and even celebrated, this came as a pleasant surprise. Yet, as I think deeper, my brain shouts "Illogical"!Are we born with self-motivation? Are we born knowing what we want to know? Even though I

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Many thanks to 'kx' for his thoughtful comment on my article. He is one of my friends for whom I have a lot of respect. I should like to take time to comment upon his remarks. If anyone is mistaken, he is most definitely not of the creationist ken. He was just pointing out some shortcomings in my post."Human evolution has always been known to be a theory in crisis within the scientific community

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First go here.If you looked at the comments section at all, you will notice that the to-ing and fro-ing quickly descended into chaos so endemic to many evolutionist vs. creationist debates. Sigh.I myself was particularly intrigued by the video. On hindsight, the concept seems so stunningly simple that I wish I had thought of it. I applaud Dr. Nilsson for his brilliance.For those of you who are

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Marketers are "donating" products to Pope Benedict XVI and praying real hard that the Pontiff would be seen using their products. LinkIt is reported that the Pope is better than any A-list celebrity when it comes to endorsing products because the Pope has more devoted followers. This only goes to show that religion isn't the only thing many so-claimed devouters goes for. It could easily be a

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In this case, I shall have to agree to disagree with my fellow contributor.Harry Kemp wrote the following in "The Second Book of Modern Verse" (1922):BlindThe Spring blew trumpets of color;Her Green sang in my brain--I heard a blind man groping"Tap--tap" with his cane;I pitied him in his blindness;But can I boast, "I see"?Perhaps there walks a spiritClose by, who pities me,--A spirit who hears me

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This blog is all for promoting rationality, just as what Asimov had done. With this in mind, I would love to share this website.We have been relying on our senses, our perceptions all our lives. Could anyone of us transcend that? Would our future be really that different from now?Rationality and irrationality is separated by a very thin line. For all we know, that line might not even exist at all

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