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• [marginalium] Machine in the ghost — 30 Dec 2022
• [marginalium] On the future of battlefields — 29 Dec 2022
• [article] Abstractions as Gods — 28 Dec 2022
  We can use abstractions to get a handle on complex features of the world. By personalising centres of purpose in the world, we can better connect them to ideologies. This permits the crafting of ever more graceful solutions to our complex world.
• [marginalium] On the expansionist nature of big concepts — 28 Dec 2022
• [marginalium] Postgenomics as the new evolutionary theory — 23 Dec 2022
• [marginalium] I often paraphrase myself, something like — 22 Dec 2022
• [marginalium] What animals think of death — 21 Dec 2022
• [marginalium] “People instinctively tend toward solutions that consist of adding something rather than subtracting something, even if the subtraction would be superior” — 20 Dec 2022
• [marginalium] A loose reflection on the meaning of ritual — 19 Dec 2022
• [marginalium] The Rising Tide of Global Sadness — 18 Dec 2022
• [marginalium] A drone made out of sticks — 17 Dec 2022
• [article] Obscuring Banalities — 16 Dec 2022
  We often use complicated-sounding words to dress up simple ideas about the human experience. But this isn’t just self-indulgence. It’s also a desire to conform to the right ‘ways’ of knowing as well as a desire for something to point at—an enemy, so to speak.
• [marginalium] Today’s Older Adults Are Cognitively Fitter Than Older Adults Were 20 Years Ago, but When and How They Decline Is No Different Than in the Past — 16 Dec 2022
• [marginalium] Selling Violent Extremism — 15 Dec 2022
• [marginalium] Academics as conservatives by default, no matter their ideologies — 14 Dec 2022