Culture and Time
July 4, 2025
Just after the beginning of the 20th century, the French philosopher Henri Bergson defined two kinds of time. One is objectively measured. We identify a
Cultures and Concepts; Hidden Wealth in Basic Ideas
June 25, 2025
What is a circle? Many Westerners have been trained to think of it as an abstract geometric shape with a circumference of 2πr and the
From Information to Joy; Expanding Ideas of the Basis of Knowledge
August 15, 2024
Some technologists say that human cultures are increasingly being uploaded into the digital world, and they justify this claim by stating that the information in
Expanding beyond One System of Concepts and One Way of Observing
June 16, 2024
I think this is the most exciting time in history to ask big questions, given the number of cultures and historical periods we can explore.
Culture and Concepts; How the Modern West Began to Focus on Distinct Objects and Three-dimensional Space
April 14, 2024
Several ideas that dominated modern Western thought emerged during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, such as: Though their dominance didn’t mature until the
Worlds in Words; Limitless Cultural Depths in Languages
March 30, 2024
Language is much more than what the cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker called words and rules. For example, aspects of Sanskrit helped encourage ancient
The World in an Infant’s Mind; Exploring the Depths of Cultures’ Assumptions
March 29, 2024
He’s young and chill, but he probably knows things about his culture’s heritage that AI systems don’t. The psychologist Jerome Bruner, in The Culture of
Finding Wonders in Common Objects in Your Daily Life by Looking At, With, and Beyond
March 27, 2024
Common objects are not so common. Our perceptions, concepts, and experiences of objects are interlaced with a culture with limitless facets. I can immediately recognize