Alex Schmitt
May 6, 2024

And what about neurophilosophy? I'd like to know your position on it. The truth is I don't trust philosophy. For me, it's like psychology: it works for the lucky ones.

Let's take Stoicism for example. It is 2k year-old, and look at the level of critical thinking (you pointed out in another article) nowadays. After all this time, wouldn't better results have come from a truly effective philosophy? And what about German philosophy at the beginning of last century? It was the most advanced one. Did it prevent Nazism?

These seem like clues to me that philosophy's not really functioning, don't they?

Thus my preference to neurophilosophy

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Alex Schmitt
Alex Schmitt

Written by Alex Schmitt

Author of "Gordian Knots: A Disruptive Spirituality for the Singularity", included the Tensigral Patterns Yoga method. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLXYYK1D

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