Disarming disinformation: How to counter the “post-truth playbook” - Big Think
Disinformation is a lie told to cover the truth and spread hate. To counter it, we must first admit that we are in an information war.| Big Think
Disinformation is a lie told to cover the truth and spread hate. To counter it, we must first admit that we are in an information war.| Big Think
Anil Seth suggests the difference is that living beings are rooted in time and entropy, a grounding that may be essential for consciousness.| Big Think
All known intelligence has developed in stages: sentience leads to sapiences which leads to selfhood. Where does AI fit into this?| Big Think
Want to study philosophy but skip some of its heavier tomes? These five novels are a great place to start. (Existential despair guaranteed.)| Big Think
The child has no control at all and the adult tries to control too much. But as philosopher Oliver Burkeman notes, there is a third way.| Big Think
An interview with with philosopher Idil Galip on why memes are one of today’s most powerful forms of communication.| Big Think
If someone is into feet, they're more likely to be into certain other things too. But we have no idea why.| Big Think
How can we make a real impact while avoiding burnout? In this week’s Mini Philosophy interview, Rutger Bregman offers a solution.| Big Think
If human happiness is an absolute good, then would having a billion slightly happy people be better than a million people incredibly happy?| Big Think
It’s no easy thing uniting millions of people over thousands of miles. And so, we need to whip up a mighty lie to help.| Big Think
What do Coke bottles, thrill-seeking, and a shrunken prefrontal cortex have in common? They all help explain extremist ideologies.| Big Think
How we handle grief largely depends on our philosophy. Here is how three famous philosophers handled the certainty of grief and despair.| Big Think
Evolution may have built our brains, but it didn't build them to find truth. So, how can we ever know what is true?| Big Think
In this week's Mini Philosophy interview, Agnes Callard explains why we should ask more questions in our conversations.| Big Think
Wonder is not the same as happiness, and it’s not the same as flourishing, but it’s often on the road to both.| Big Think
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.| Big Think
An interview with Simon Critchley on Luther, Kant, James, and why we need to rethink the public-private divide when it comes to mysticism.| Big Think
In "Cross Purposes," journalist Jonathan Rauch argues that American democracy needs a more Christlike Christianity.| Big Think
A paradigm should be elastic enough to accommodate new data and broad enough to explain the world. For Rupert Sheldake, ours does neither.| Big Think
According to Tolkien, fantasy requires a deep imagination known as "sub-creation." And the genre reflects a fundamental truth of being human.| Big Think
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.| Big Think
The award-winning nature writer, Robert Macfarlane, talks with Big Think about how to reacquaint ourselves with the rivers in our lives.| Big Think
We need to fully acknowledge problems, while vigorously pursuing solutions, writes Jason Crawford. Call it “solutionism.”| Big Think
Nobody lives life as a single, unaltered personality. Rather, our personalities change, grow, and deepen with each day.| Big Think
Science can be thought of as a series of maps of nature, striving to be ever more complete, as models and theories evolve.| Big Think
