Category: Purpose

  • Retrospective 2024-01

    This is a retrospective of the first week 2024 (2024-01-01–2024-01-07). I will write in both English and Swedish because I write for myself. Newborn thoughts are easier to express in my native language (Swedish). However, most of what I read is in English and then I will stick to English. For the most part, I…

  • Iain McGilchrist on Value & Purpose

    The following is from Iain McGilchrist’s lecture for The Weekend University on September 23, 2022. McGilchrist argues that value and purpose are constitutive of reality, and that reason and evidence strongly support such a conclusion. My emphasis is in italics. 2:15 >>Iain McGilchrist: I believe consciousness is first irreducible, and second, best thought of as…