Clemens Lode is a management consultant with focus on agile project management methods (check out https://www.lode-consulting.com). He likes to summarize his insights into books, check out his philosophy series "Philosophy for Heroes" here: https://www.philosophy-for-heroes.com. His core approach to philosophy and management is that people need to be more aware of their limits and ultimately their identity and their vulnerabilities.
The theory of evolution has evolved over many generations. Understanding its history helps in understanding its application in the present. This is an excerpt from the book Philosophy for Heroes: Continuum and the book Does The Brain Need You? If you want to discuss these subjects, check out the Philosophy Meetup Group or follow me […]
The theory of evolution has evolved over many generations. Understanding its history helps in understanding its application in the present. This is an excerpt from the book Philosophy for Heroes: Continuum and the book Does The Brain Need You? If you want to discuss these subjects, check out the Philosophy Meetup Group or follow me […]
Wir wurden angegriffen. Mütter, Väter Freunde und Nachbarn Kinder, jeder. Die Welt wurde durch etwas Böses zum Stillstand gebracht, das wir in der Form bisher noch nicht kannten. Dieser Angreifer hat nicht nur unsere Gesundheit, sondern auch unser soziales Miteinander angegriffen. In einer solchen Situation ist es leicht, Hoffnung zu verlieren und aufzugeben. Ein Blick […]
Overview of current infection cases: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Description of SARS-CoV-2 PCR test by WHO: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/real-time-rt-pcr-assays-for-the-detection-of-sars-cov-2-institut-pasteur-paris.pdf?sfvrsn=3662fcb6_2 Overview of SARS-CoV-2 Testkits: https://www.finddx.org/covid-19/sarscov2-eval-molecular/molecular-eval-results/ Asymptomatic/symptomatic rate of polio (comparable to SARS-CoV-2?): https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/polio.html Were there lockdowns with Polio? https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Much-like-COVID-19-polio-shut-down-schools-15258518.php Study with hamsters about the effectiveness of masks: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa644/5848814 Study on self-made masks: https://www.mpic.de/4670174/filtermasken_zusammenfassung.pdf Meta-study (172 studies) on effectiveness of masks: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31142-9/fulltext […]
Try to say the color of each word instead of reading the words themselves. #consciousness
Consciousness can be understood when knowing the evolution of attention from the first multicellular lifeforms to modern mammals. #evolution #consciousness #attention
This is an excerpt from the book series Philosophy for Heroes: Continuum. You can get a copy here. In our daily lives, too often we have our creativity submerged. We can walk down the street, drive to work, bicycle, watch TV, eat, etc. without ever really using this Darwinian machine. The more accustomed we become to […]
This is an excerpt from the book series Philosophy for Heroes: Continuum. You can get a copy here. If you’re good at finding the one right answer to life’s multiple-choice questions, you’re smart. But intelligence is what you need when contemplating the leftovers in the refrigerator, trying to figure out what might go with them. Or if trying […]
This is an excerpt from the book series Philosophy for Heroes: Continuum. You can get a copy here. “Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.” “A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, […]
This is an excerpt from the book series Philosophy for Heroes: Continuum. You can get a copy here. How would you create a life-like model of your face? A simple approach is to cover your face with papier-mâché, let it dry, detach it from your face, then fill the inside of the mask with plaster, […]
This is an excerpt from the book series Philosophy for Heroes: Continuum. You can get a copy here. It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it is pumping downy seeds into the air. […] [spreading] DNA whose coded […]
This is an excerpt from the book series Philosophy for Heroes: Continuum. You can get a copy here. It is mere rubbish, thinking at present of the origin of life; one might as well think of the origin of matter. —Charles Darwin, Letter To J. D. Hooker [Darwin, 2012] What are some specific examples in nature of complex […]
This is an excerpt from the book series Philosophy for Heroes: Continuum. You can get a copy here. What are the three major properties a system needs to have in order to evolve? Still, it needs to be said that the light of evolution is just that—a means of seeing better. It is not a […]
This is an excerpt from the book series Philosophy for Heroes: Continuum. You can get a copy here. It makes one wonder what the evolutionary tree of this idea [the theory of evolution] would look like, were it an organism that could be mapped out by fossil record rather than words. The concept is one […]
This is an excerpt from the book series Philosophy for Heroes: Continuum. You can get a copy here. If the “big bang” created the universe, and if nothing existed before the big bang, where did the big bang come from? Imagine an infinite sea of energy filling empty space, with waves moving around in there, […]