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How we think and the way things are…

Jeff Carreira December 27, 2014 Philosophy 8 Comments

Our customary perception tells us that we live in a world made up of separate things. We have been trained to see reality as a collection of objects. Hence we use the word ‘everything’ to …

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Gregory Bateson

Movie Review: An Ecology of Mind

Jeff Carreira November 18, 2010 Philosophy 10 Comments

I recently had the pleasure to attend a special pre-screening of a new film entitled An Ecology of Mind. The film is an hour-long documentary about the anthropologist and philosopher Gregory Bateson that was created by …

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In Times of Crisis Philosophy is Not a Luxury: Part 2

Jeff Carreira June 19, 2009 Philosophy 2 Comments

We have become very familiar, perhaps over-familiar, with the word crisis. Everyday we hear about the environmental crisis, the economic crisis, the crisis of global warming, and the crisis of violent extremism and on and …

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Gregory BatesonPhilosophy

William James and The Absolute

Jeff Carreira March 16, 2009 Philosophy 10 Comments

In my last post I tried to evoke a sense of how far personally and culturally human beings might have to go in our own evolution in order to be able to overcome our global …

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Gregory BatesonPragmatism

Do we REALLY believe in Evolution? Gregory Bateson, Part 2

Jeff Carreira March 11, 2009 Philosophy 12 Comments

I want to finish the thought that I started in my last post when I used this quote of Gregory Bateson’s – “The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between …

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Gregory Bateson

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