Universal Consilience

In this blog I wish to share my thoughts on the subjects of natural and human sciences, philosophy and whatever crosses my mind and I consider worth sharing. Consilience is a word recently brought back in fashion by E.O. Wilson who proposes to unify knowledge by melding natural sciences with all other branches of knowledge. I find this enterprise just great!

Thursday, 21 September 2017

Stop sleeping, you'll feel better?!

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Imagine yourself in a depressive state. Most of us can do it because most of us have had that experience at least once. What can you do t...

Sunday, 2 August 2015

My view on "consciousness" on August 2nd, 2015

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I woke up with the following thought about what consciousness might be: In a system with internal model of itself, consciousness is the mo...

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

How to learn most effectively

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The advice in this article were largely inspired by a series of lectures given by Professor Stanislas Dehaene at the College de France on ...

Comment apprendre le plus efficacement possible ?

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Les conseils prodigués dans cet article ont été largement inspiré d’une série de cours donnés par le Professeur Stanislas Dehaene au Collè...

Monday, 24 November 2014

About Susan Blackmore's memes and t(r)emes...

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I attended this Sunday a lecture given by Susan Blackmore on genes, memes, and tremes. Here are in a nutshell my thoughts about it: ...

Sunday, 20 July 2014

Misadventures of a novice meditator

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I received a book about meditation and decided to give it a try. As an exercise, I was asked to sit straight for 3 minutes and to … (I jus...

Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Some thoughts about morality

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We are machines programmed by our genes to reproduce them. Our ability to feel good or bad is equally programmed by our genes. We will feel...

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Egoch: Belgium; I am Belgian guy, trained as a chemist but working as a patent attorney. I love all aspects of life and especially humans, science, and human sciences.

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