Memory: The Cult of Remembrance
[Exploring Life] How many misleading or false beliefs and assumptions do we preserve in our memories? And how many of these false beliefs and assumptions have been assimilated as a result of cultural conditioning? It would be immensely difficult to conduct a statistical inventory of our memories in order to quantify the exact number of [...]
Mental Degradation: Multitasking
[Exploring Life] Multitasking is a Delusion: The extent to which we can sometimes become a victim of our own delusions can be quite surprising. A delusion is a false belief that has been accepted as fact, and is quite resistant to reason or common sense. In other words, delusions are remarkably resilient and durable. They [...]
Effects of Media: The Technium
[Exploring Life] The word technology can be an illusive term. Technology originates in the Greek technologia which combines craft (techne) and saying (logia). A common understanding of technology refers to the physical tools and hardware hardware of an object that is designed to make work easier. In this sense, technology is a label that describes [...]
Education: The Design of the Prerequisite
[Exploring Life] The purpose of a curriculum is to impose a uniform scope of and sequence of knowledge and skills that are to be taught to a group of people. The presupposition of curriculum lies within the concept of the prerequisite. In other words, the design of education originates in the assumption that the imposition [...]