Category Archives: Metacognition

Quaker Plainness in Religious Academia

By Robert Fischer | Published: October 17, 2009

[NOTE: Some of you are probably saying, "Hey, wait a tick, I've seen this before!" I've decided that I'm going to keep http://robertfischer.posterous.com/ for FaceBook/Twitter style status updates, and to use EnfranchisedMind for lengthier things. At first, I was going to keep some non-technical stuff off EnfranchisedMind, but I've reconsidered that. For the sake of [...]

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Soul Hacking

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 16, 2009

And now, some self-indulgent navel-gazing on the heels of the Alan Watts podcast sample.

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Podcast Sample: Alan Watts Podcast

By Robert Fischer | Published: August 15, 2009

Alan Watts is a fascinating figure, and on the short list of role models for my aspiring career as an academic1. He groks the eastern sensibility of religion, but comes from a decidedly western context. Combining that with an apparently natural ease of conversation, he really makes the wider field of comparative religion accessible, engaging, [...]

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The Fermi Paradox

By Brian Hurt | Published: June 4, 2009

The Fermi Paradox asks: if there are any other alien civilizations of any antiquity, why aren’t they here? I have a theory.

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Cooperation and Morality without God

By Brian Hurt | Published: April 9, 2009

So, I stumbled across this news article recently, where in the biologists have figured out that it’s to the advantage of yeast to cooperate. This came as a bit of a surprise for the biologists (OK, at least one physicist- I’m not sure why he was quoted): Cooperative behavior has puzzled biologists because if only [...]

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