The emergence of humans is a real murder mystery. The date, the course of events, and the motives are missing. Yet, we have a pile of bones and lots of stone tools, but they can't lead us to understand when and how…
Christmas marks the celebration of the birth of the most famous mystic in the West. What mystics have in common is that they have something complicated to share with people, but not with other mystics. It’s difficult to make people believe they…
In the theories of evolution, the implicit idea from the beginning has been to explain also human emergence. Although the known history of the evolution of the genus homo unveils the mystery of man a bit, no single factor so far can…
The ego, or the self, is considered a great mystery and an indication of the unique quality of man. In man’s world, the ego is a unique phenomenon and an integral part of all humanity. However, this is neither an objective nor…
As my hypothesis suggests, nature has prevented children from experiencing nature directly, i.e., as such; instead, their inner world is heavily controlled and modified. It is no problem for children, by no means, but for adult human individuals, it is. We, adults,…
Why does philosophy often not help to understand the human mind and, the contrary, obscure things? Why are questions of philosophy “eternal”? The “mother of Sciences” has influenced the entire way we read the human mind and see it as an eternal…
Humanity includes the assumption that we would not have developed differently and not even better as human beings. Man is a unique and superior organism created either by nature or by God. We even think of the rest of the world as…
Our modern worldview is based on the anthropocentric view of Renaissance philosophy. It highlights the uniqueness of modern humans: man is a great miracle, a Magnum miraculum. Not only better than other creatures but a species in its very own class. Man…
About 20 years ago, I was fascinated by Neanderthal man and how it differed from modern man. I then wrote the text below to describe the speciality of our kindred species. Despite the poetic tone of the text, I find it beneficial…
”We should do well to consider much more seriously... the type of theory Bergson put forward in connection with memory and sense perception. The suggestion is that the function of the brain and nervous system and sense organs is in the main…