“I once interviewed the Dalai Lama, and I said to the Dalai Lama, ‘Why do Buddhists giggle all the time?’ Because they do. They just see the whole thing as a joke, you know, and they’re wonderful to be around. But he answered a different question, he said, ‘What I like about laughter is that […]

“These two types of science roles, simplifier and constructor, are both needed for creating the ecosystem of science. But why should it be that understanding the components (in simplifier fashion) does not open up the complete architecture of all science to us? The reason is that complete comprehension of one level of abstraction does not […]

Aztec moral philosophy has profound differences from the Greek tradition “While Plato and Aristotle were concerned with character-centred virtue ethics, the Aztec approach is perhaps better described as socially-centred virtue ethics. If the Aztecs were right, then ‘Western’ philosophers have been too focused on individuals, too reliant on assessments of character, and too optimistic about […]