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One early morning in Vancouver during my business trip to visit BCCRC ( BC Cancer Research Center), just finished 20 mins HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) and looked at the mirror while enjoying sweaty face. I was talking to another myself in the mirror, ” I know you were thinking about doing this exercise tomorrow …
Noam Chomsky is is an American professor and public intellectual who is known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called “the father of modern linguistics”, Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. As his one of the …
People in the East and West really do think differently, especially when it comes to self-identity. Depending where you live, either associative or distinctive thinking will shape your sense of self. You can learn a lot about yourself by looking through the lens of a different worldview. Gish Jen presents that awareness here by comparing …
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.” – Wei Wu Wei Western philosophy typically conceptualizes the self as a stable, controlling entity, comparable to a pilot, while Eastern philosophies such as Buddhism argue that the self is an …
The early 1900s was an amazing time for Western science, as Albert Einstein was developing his theories of relativity and psychology was born, as Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis took over the scientific mainstream. Karl Popper observed these developments firsthand and came to draw a distinction between what he referred to as science and pseudoscience, which …