Category: crealectics
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Is Philosophy Useful in Medical Practice? The Physician and The Philosopher
A dialogue between Professor MD PhD Richard Levi, specialist of neuro-rehabilitation at Linköping University Hospital and Dr Luis De Miranda, philosophical practitioner and researcher at the Center for Medical Humanities, Uppsala University.
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Artificial Intelligence: Where will the robots lead us? (video debate)
Most governments and enterprises see AI as a chance and as a positive challenge. But scientists like Stephen Hawking and authors like Karel Čapek, who introduced the word “robot” to the world in a play from 1920, warned against dangers coming with AI. So does much of the fiction written on the topic. Hear a…
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Analytic, Dialectic and Crealectic Thinking in the Context of Philosophical Health
Talk by Dr Luis de Miranda at the 3rd International Conference on Philosophical Counseling & Practice, organised by The National Philosophical Counseling Association (15-16 January 2021). The article referred to is open access here.
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The Triumph to Be
Power produces. Global power produces. What does it produce? Victims. Many victims and a few so-called winners to cover the fact that the main production is a mental state of victimism. The current pandemia was an excellent opportunity for power to reinforce the mental state of victimism. Victimism is not only “I am a victim”,…
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Covideology in Sweden
Do we still need to explain today that facts are never neutral, that they are part of an interpretative discourse that serves a dynamic of control? I was quite proud to see how Sweden, were I live, handled the panmedia (sic) this spring, but Since November and the so-called second wave, I regret that the…
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Trained – Not Constrained – to Freedom
One usually opposes the necessary and the possible. And indeed, if there is a relationship between the possible and freedom, then it is hard to imagine a form of liberty that would be constrained by necessity. But once freedom is seen as a discipline, and I would argue that it can only be cultivated as…
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How to Remain Free in a World of Digital Voodoo
There is a human-induced process of equalization at work on earth: transformation of difference into sameness. From the point of view of the digital masters, there is the belief that it is possible to impose such dissolution of specificity on others without affecting by retroaction the master’s singularity. The idea of the Digital Voodoo is…