Tag: personalities

• Does light, seeking light, the light of light beguile?

  Is the sense of control of one’s life, of one’s surroundings, of oneself, merely an addendum tacked on to the accumulating years that follow maturity? A garb one wraps around oneself to adapt more successfully to the role assigned -a costume meant only for the play? Or is it really the emperor’s clothes, borrowed and […]

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  December 8, 2021

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  Aeon.co, agency, Daniel Dennett, identity, intelligence, Kahlil Gibran, Michael Levin, persona, personalities, taxonomic levels, teleology, Theory of Mind, Tufts University

• Make not your thoughts your prison

    What can we do with those who flout the laws of the land or openly disrespect the prevailing mores? The usual answer is to punish -to retribute, either by restricting the offender’s rights, or their freedom. And sometimes, depending on the crime, even ending their lives. Prisons have traditionally been the means to rid […]

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  November 21, 2018

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  BBC Future, Christian Jarrett, criminal myths, Freedom, Institute of Criminology, Jesse Meijers, personalities, post-incarceration syndrome, prison environment, prisoners, prisonisation, prisons, punishment, rehabilitation, Shakespeare, Susie Hulley, Vrije Universiteit