Art Markman, PhD @ Psychology Today
There is a lot of evidence that people are overconfident in many judgments about themselves. If you ask a group of people how talented they are at some skill relative to the population as a whole (or even relative to a specific group that they are a part of), the [...]

Michael Lamport Commons,
Sara Nora Ross, and
Jonas Gensaku Miller
The first Beyond Formal Operations Symposium was held at Harvard in 1981. The resulting text Beyond Formal Operations (Commons, Richards, & Armon, 1984) was published by Praeger. There have been many subsequent publications on the subject. Occasionally people suggest that the postformal stages posited by theorists and empirical [...]

Steve McIntosh
Introduction
This is a presentation about how the values known as the beautiful, the true, and the good play a central role in the evolution of the universe. We’ll be considering this ancient and venerable triad of values from the perspective of integral philosophy to see how beauty, truth, and goodness actually serve as attractors [...]

By H.B. Augustine
A Proposed Solution and Expansion
To the Platonic Explanation
Of So-Called Universals
In this essay, I will consider the problem of universals and its major interpretations. I will proceed to see which interpretation is the case, and – because it is Plato’s theory – I will offer an alternative way of explaining his metaphysics and epistemology [...]

Dave Pollard of Salon

Natural and social systems are complex — that is, not entirely knowable, unpredictable, resistant to cause-and-effect analysis, in a word, mysterious. For our first three million years on Earth we humans, like every other species on the planet, accepted that mystery. We adapted rather than trying to change our environment. We evolved [...]

Merlin Donald
Origins of the Modern Mind (1991) was an attempt to synthesize various sources of information–neurobiological, psychological, archeological and anthropological, among others–about our cognitive origins, in the belief that the human mind co-evolved in close interaction with both brain and culture… This precis focuses on my core theory and disregards most of the background material [...]

Ben Fitzhugh of the University of Washington
Introduction
"The decision to reject one paradigm is always simultaneously the decision to accept another, and the judgement leading to that decision involves the comparison of both paradigms with nature and with each other." (Kuhn 1970:77)
"Normal science can proceed without rules only so long as the relevant scientific community accepts [...]

By Monica Sharma, M.D.Director, Leadership and Capacity Development, United Nations, OHRLLS

Our World
We are living in a time of whole system transition on a personal and planetary scale that affects every aspect of life as we know it. Patterns of possibility are emerging that have never before been available to all the earth’s people and to [...]

Paul Ehrlich w/ Seed Magazine
Does human culture evolve via natural selection, as our genes do?

Biologists have a pretty good idea of both how flies become resistant to DDT and how humans and primates have diverged over time. That’s because the mechanism underlying these processes is the same. Using evolution we can understand how organisms generally [...]

By George Por

Wisdom Society or Extinct Society

Connecting our conversations is the best way to discover that the future is already here, but that the awareness of it is not evenly distributed. Why is this important? Because, the choice is between joining together to create a wisdom society or regressing into an extinct society. The complex, [...]