Bruce Charlton's Notions

The idea of saving the appearances, or saving the phenomena, is that deep explanations should explain superficial explanations. For instance...

Any suggestions? The question was prompted by this: http://www.scifiwright.com/2015/11/being-a-bright-darkens-the-intellect/#more-14843...

The other day I knocked-over the television and it landed on something sharp which smashed the screen - although with a modern TV, with a...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/genius-as-ultimate-altruist.html

1. If not, then what? 2. And what will happen then ? 3. Is this promoting of Good? 1. If not, then what? Most public policy discussion...

In the 1800s, as the mass media began to gather influence mostly via newspapers, the political rulers were wary of 'public opinion' ...

http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/general-properties-of-group-selection.html

The Golden Thread is a person's real autobiography - the sequence of deep, significant, mythic-seeming, remembered experiences stretchin...

PAMINA (the woman): In men, who feel love A good heart is not lacking. PAPAGENO (the man): To sympathize with the sweet instincts I...

Excerpts: I have often pondered the hopelessness of God’s children wandering in the dark and dreary world, not knowing who they are, w...

http://williamarkle.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/some-1950s-watercolours.html

CS Lewis was certainly a wise man - and almost everything he wrote (including ephemeral correspondence) has at least glimmers of this wisdom...

Here is an amusing advert (or series of adverts) I came across a while back when researching the purchase of a new washing machine - good co...

http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/the-nature-of-charles-williamss-failure.html

While theories about undeveloped amygdala, or the rabbit strategy of welcoming predators into an overpopulated meadow may have some merit, ...

Q: What do these pieces have in common? A: Both produced by Mike Batt.

All mainstream modern mass media TV, movie, novel narratives are politically correct - but there are two ways of being PC - and one is a lot...

           The thunder god sat on his horse -            A brave and noble filly -           "I'm Thor!" - he cried.    ...

When I was a child, it seemed to me that classical music was all the same. It also seemed that adults who liked classical music liked it all...

http://www.jrganymede.com/2015/11/03/obedience-conscience-then-from-inner-guidance-possible-implications-of-personal-revelation/

I believe that all good reform and repair in the West (a reversal of its corruption, nihilism, self-hatred, alienation; and embrace of evil ...