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Mi cerebro está vacío

Mi cerebro está vacío

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La mente no es una cosa. Es una apertura a la realidad. Todos los seres vivos tienen esta aperurta. Lo que distingue a la mente humana es la capacidad de abrirse a los aspectos más inmateriales de la realidad, para encontrar en ellos un sentido más profundo de ésta que el de la mera supervivencia.

¡Se ha perdido tanto tiempo en la Filosofía Moderna por visualizar que la mente es un ‘objeto’ que tiene que relacionarse con otros objetos (la realidad)!

Mi cerebro está vacío…es una ventana.

The 4 mutations that triggered the evolution of the family

The 4 mutations that triggered the evolution of the family

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Each species develops the reproductive strategy most fitted to its ecological niche. Humans developed a pair-bonding, social monogamy system.
Our present undertanding of evolution suggests the main mutations that triggered this outcome are:
1. The evolution of bipedalism (walking upright) made pregnancy more motion-limiting for mothers. Also, it twisted the birth canal making delivery complicated and exhausting.
2 . Encephalization (enlargement of the brain), made birth a complicated and prostrating endeavor. These large-headed offspring can only be born with an incomplete skull. This make them immature and unable to even walk for a year, making them the most utterly dependent creature among mammals.
3. Opposable thumbs gave us great capabilities, but impeded the ‘clipping’ of babies on the mother’s fur, as the other primates do to carry them arround. This forced mothers to bear newborns in their arms, limiting their gathering and feeding abilities to a minimum.
4. The appearence of menopause (interruption of female fertility at the middle of their lives) is quite weird, considering evelution is maximization of the flow of life. But it enables grandmothers to collaborate in their grandchildren’s upbringing, something that, for the flow of life, has proven to be better than having their own children.
In this ecological niche, Nature tested a pair bonding reproductive systems that incentivized the male to stay around the mother of his offspring, helping her, to nurture them. The human family was invented.
It is important to find the natural roots of human institutions, so not to use them in a wrong, unnatural, way.

Cómo nació la Postmodernidad

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La postmodernidad es una pérdida de confianza en la Modernidad. Comenzó,  a manifestarse cuando se acabó la euforia de la reconstrucción, tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Comenzó, entonces, la Guerra Fría, surgiendo, en ella, el miedo a una guerra nuclear que destruyera completamente el planeta.
El pesimismo que trajo la rotura del mito del progreso indefinido fue ahogado con los narcóticos de las siguientes actitudes:

1. Pacifismo : ninguna guerra vale la pena ser luchada, por principio.

2. Ecologismo pesimista: el hombre es un peligro o, al menos, un estorbo para la naturaleza

3. Ludismo, o búsqueda del entretenimiento como la única forma asequible de felicidad.

Esto incluye:

a) el sexo como diversión, y la pornografía;

b) las drogas para manejar el ánimo;

c) los video juegos y, últimamente,

d) la addicción a series de TV.

La contemplación de estos síntomas, por quién está fuera de la Civilización Occidental, llevan a percibirla como decadente.

A Minuscule History of Love

A Minuscule History of Love

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Attraction man-woman in antiquity was considered a mere passion. Marriage, on the contrary, was a social contract, with little to do with passion. Love was only between equals: the enjoyment of friendship.
Later, Christianity invented ‘agapé’ or ‘charitas’, a “love in reverse”, where, what the lover wants is to fulfill the loved one, not himself.
Christians learned this from the history of Creation plus the history of Incarnation. Since then, they are trying to build marriages based on this “meta-natural” pattern. Will they succeed?

My personal mission statement

My personal mission statement

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My mission, in the intellectual realm, is to help to turn the page of Modernity as a 600 year-long epoch in the history of ideas.
Some of the weapons I use in this endeavor are, however, quite modern: revolutionary utopism, and irreverence. And some are postmodern, like hyperbolic headlines, and bit-sized thoughts.
Wanna help? Think, and talk, along the lines of this blog (and choose your own weapons).

Einstein no creyó en la Relatividad

Einstein no creyó en la Relatividad

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Una cosa es lo que la Teoría de la Relatividad de Einstein nos enseña del Universo y otra lo que Einstein pensaba del Universo.
Einstein creía en un Universo determinista clásico (newtoniano modificado para altas velocidades). Pero la Relatividad fue el principio del visión dinámica del Cosmos, evolucionando desde un átomo inicial.