Category: crealectics
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Drawing the Creal
My daughter gave me a drawing challenge. The first step is to draw the contour of your hand. You can put your hand in any position on the paper and then use a pencil to follow the contour of your hand. The next step is to draw something out of that contour. I accepted the…
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The Regenerocene: How Not To “Think Human First” in a Philosophically Healthy World
At the heart of various contemporary European policies or research orientations is the idea of contributing to a “human-centered” world and “thinking human first”. For example, the European Parliament resolution of 20 October 2020 on intellectual property rights for the development of artificial intelligence technologies advocates “a human-centred approach to AI that is compliant with…
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Greta and the Creal
A prescient excerpt from an article by Guy Burneko in the journal World Futures (2005). “Whether in the terms of the ecology of natural systems or those of the ecology of mind and nature, be it in the cosmological mathematics of wholeness and mutual implication or the mythopoeic tropes of an undivided cosmos coming to…
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Podcast – The Philosophical Therapist with Dr Luis de Miranda
Thoughts: Philosophy Untangled Has Philosophy ever actually helped anyone? Yes, yes it has. This week our hosts, Arianna Clark and Alex Constantinou, talk to philosopher, novelist and therapist Dr Luis de Miranda – where he explains just how philosophy can help us, and how it helped him. From dissecting reality to RuPaul’s Drag Race, we…
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Cognidiversity, a Kaleidoscope of Ways of Doing and thinking
Babies come into the world through a tube which at its origin is a kaleidoscope of infinite possibility, but which ends at its social end in this reductive and limited image called reality. This would be enough to cry for a long time, perhaps even to remain more or less inconsolable. Crealectic souls, however, try…
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The Need to Mitigate Climate Change Can Be A Legally Protected Philosophical Belief
The UK Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that an employee’s asserted belief that mankind is heading towards catastrophic climate change and we are under a moral duty to act to mitigate or avoid this is capable of being a philosophical belief for the purposes of the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 (SI…
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