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Why It's So Difficult To Change People's Minds

https://zerocontradictions.net/epistemology/difficult-to-change-minds

the hard (universal) sciences. However, those sciences are not particularly relevant for figuring out how to structure a human society. There is also a lot of debate in the human-
Belief networks, selective attention and blind spots, echo chambers, censorship, identities, and genetic differences make it difficult to change people's minds.

Government Success Stories

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Governmentsuccesses.htm

National Academy of Sciences: This is the premier scientific body in the United States, comprised of 1,800 of its best scientists. Membership is one of the highest honors of a sci

mysteryofevil

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of modern brain sciences, which have basically assumed the mind (soul-spirit/being/essence -nature of the human being) is only a function of the material brain, and that there is

High Tech Hayekians

http://philsalin.com/hth/hth.html

to a number of other sciences, but until now, to my knowledge, there have not been any attempts to communicate with the field of computer science. In September of 1989 at George M

The Space Review: essays and commentary about the final frontier

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in the social sciences examine various aspects of spaceflight in their own way. Monday, July 21, 2025 A Japanese automaker’s small hop towards reusable rockets Last month, Japanes

Cultural Carrying Capacity - The Garrett Hardin Society - Articles

https://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_cultural_carrying_capacity.html

In the physical sciences the most basic terms stand for entities that are "conserved under transformations," that is for entities that remain quantitatively the same when qualitat
Cultural Carrying Capacity by Garrett Hardin - The Garrett Hardin Society - Articles

Rationality: From AI to Zombies

https://elizier.neocities.org/

of the mathematics and sciences underlying them . . . that it turns out that just reading through a massive brain-dump full of problems in philosophy and science can, yes, be surp

Swami Vidyatmananda "The Making of a Devotee" Chapter 2

https://ramakrishna.de/vidyatmananda/Chapter2.php

an ideal in the social sciences and the gradual disillusionment they afforded. When I chanced to be told one day by the manager of the hotel where the American Psychological Assoc
Chapter 2 of the Autobiography of the late Swami Vidyatmananda (1913-2000), one of the first westerners to become a monk of the Ramakrishna-Order of Inda

Area Handbook Series/ Ghana / Bibliography

http://www.country-data.com/frd/cs/ghana/gh_bibl.html

Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1989. Anquandah, James. Rediscovering Ghana's Past . Essex: Longman, 1982. Arhin, Kwame. West African Traders in Ghana in the Nineteenth and Twentiet

The Forever Failures of the Cult of Self Improvement — Frogesay

https://frogesay.neocities.org/articles/2021-05/the-forever-failures-of-the-cult-of-self-improvement

of the most notorious sciences, where studies are rarely replicated and any number of lifestyle choices can make the results of a study meaningless as a result of these externalit
The world of self-improvement is cultish and ultimately stupid.

Human Knowledge: Foundations and Limits

http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html

similar goals. Social sciences strive to induce truths that would apply to any kind of person anywhere in the universe, but this is not always possible because humans know of only

Biology as Dogma

https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/89BRage.html

that biology, like all sciences, should not be treated as dogma. But what it shows most of all is that biology is both taught and treated as dogma by biologists. In saying this, w
Review of Harold Hillman, Letter to Students of Biology of the Twenty First Century, reviewed by Brian Martin in The Age Monthly Review, 1989


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