In order to really talk, people have to be willing to admit their weakness, and open up. But if there is anger, envy, jealousy or feelings of superiority, truth cannot exist because everyone is measuring what they are saying, trying to avoid making themselves vulnerable in any way. ...
After calling a few people, I don’t know what else to do. What else is there to do except go out into the cold San Francisco night in a black hoodie to watch 15-20 separate displays of fireworks. I’m not sure how I feel about this yet. Is it a spectacular way to say goodbye...
Neil Selwyn reinforces this perspective by stating that technologies can influence the way that people do things while at the same time are profoundly shaped by those who design, develop, implement and use them (Selwyn, 2019). Jon Dron presents the idea of orchestration where “it is the way...
Like drives, however, intrinsic needs are innate to the human organism and function as an important energizer of behavior. Furthermore, intrinsic motivation may interact with drives in the sense of either amplifying or attenuating drives and of affecting the way in which people satisfy their drives...
I mean in a sexual way, of course. Some are quite nice when you get to know them on a collegial level.), and I was patiently explaining to him, step-by-step, how his support of Donald Trump was an implicit support of fascism. He didn’t say much but he nodded thoughtfully through...
Today’s fast computers can simulate the way millions of planetesimals, probably no larger than 100 kilometers in diameter, might gather together under their mutual gravity to form the planets we see today. We are beginning to understand that this process was a violent one, with planetesimals cr...
The presence of another significantly impacts moral attitudes as well as neural correlates underlying moral behavior. Together, the results support the view that both individual dispositions and social influence shape and synchronize people’s moral computations, and fits with the theoretical perspective ...
correlates with its underlying desire and this motive only becomes apparent when the symptom has been properly interpreted. If interpretation can be conceived as a process whereby meaning is accorded to a certain phenomenon, the interpretation of meaning, the meaning to be allocated to meaning, is ...