Dunbar's Number: The Limit of Friendship
Humans can maintain only about 150 stable social relationships. Beyond this, we need laws, religion, and corporations to organize.
We do not grow old as long as we strive to improve ourselves.
Humans can maintain only about 150 stable social relationships. Beyond this, we need laws, religion, and corporations to organize.
Why do we act? Abraham Maslow argued that human needs are arranged in a pyramid. You can't worry about self-actualization if you are starving.
“Is consciousness just highly complex information processing?” Asking the definition of human before Singularity. What should we do the day AI becomes Buddha?
The line between good and evil is not fixed. In the Stanford Prison Experiment, normal students became sadistic guards in days.
“We are strictly in an era where Gurus are not needed.” The Age of Pisces (Religion/Sacrifice) is gone, and the Age of Aquarius (Science/Individual/Network) has come. The spiritual revolution this ...
Would you deny what your own eyes see if everyone around you disagreed? Solomon Asch's experiments reveal the terrifying power of peer pressure.
“Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.” The miraculous moment when mind meets matter, revealed by psychologist Jung and physicist Pauli.
“One is all, and the universe is in a speck of dust.” Where Buddhist Indra’s Net meets modern physics’ Holography theory. We are not separated.
We value things more simply because we own them. The pain of giving up a mug is greater than the pleasure of acquiring it.
We think our eyes record everything like a camera. But we are blind to what we don't pay attention to. The shocking psychology of noticing.