Scott Robinson
Band of Brothers
Often have we put forth the premise that human beings are biologically predisposed to live in community – that we are social beings,...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 247 min read
Things Hoped For, Things Not Seen
I’m originally from Kentucky, though these days I live just across the river in Indiana, and I am still sufficiently bound to the...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 17, 20235 min read
Use Your Words!
Early in my cognitive pyschology studies, I came across George Lakoff. The first book I read by the Berkley language expert was Metaphors...
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Scott Robinson
May 21, 20234 min read
Terence McKenna and Civic Duty on Bismoll
When I was younger, I loved a comic book called The Legion of Super-Heroes. These weren’t just any super-heroes; they were a group of...
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Scott Robinson
May 21, 20234 min read
Mrs. Grundy
Many of Robert Heinlein’s later books are, to our chagrin, little more than monotone sociopolitical tracts spewing his personal ideology...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 25, 20215 min read
The Answer That Satisfied, the Answer That Was True
As I write this, it is the day after Apple TV’s new adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation epic – stories of the far future, when...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 1, 20206 min read
Human Education in a Robot-Driven World
What will become of public education in a world where human beings no longer work for a living? The educational system we have in place...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 6, 20207 min read
Hemispheres
What other features of our brains determine our social and political views and behaviors? As it turns out, one of the most important is...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 6, 20206 min read
Right is Left and Left is Right
British psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist has summarized for us the differences between the hemispheres of the brain, putting the lie to...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 1, 20204 min read
The Tasteless Boor That We All Know
As a general rule, adults know how to act. While it's certainly true that nobody's perfect, it's safe to say that the vast majority of us...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 1, 20204 min read
How Children Behave
There are few among us who don’t have children in our lives. Maybe we are parents ourselves; maybe we have nieces and nephews. Maybe we...
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Scott Robinson
May 30, 202010 min read
The Origins of Morality
Myth: Human morality is a product of reason, a consequence of civilization. “Morality dictates that we help.” ~EMH, “Warhead”, Star Trek:...
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