just another blog on skeptic thinking
Like someone bloating and sickening from overindulging in industrial sugar, the uncritical moralist overindulges in moral convictions – restlessly driven into a state of deadly fervour devoid of reason and health. What if our modern civilization is plagued with a pandemic, not unlike the obesity pandemic, of overindulgence in maladaptive morals?
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1. Introduction A central concept for the understanding of evolutionary theory and subsequent disciplines such as evolutionary game theory or psychology is that of fitness (cf. Millstein 2021, p.5; Alexander 2001, p.1). But: There are few idioms as popular and as regularly misunderstood as the survival of the fittest, which was coined by Herbert Spencer and popularized by Charles Darwin….
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1. introduction Since its inception, the internet has continuously transformed people’s lives at an unprecedented speed. This transformation is not only of a technical and economic nature: the Internet connects, permeates and shapes cultures. The digital world dominates everyday life in an almost totalitarian way like no other medium before it, forming an omnipresent aesthetic framework and at the same….
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