Philosophy Wire: Monogamous.

According to a new study that looked at 10 species of vertebrates, evolution used a kind of universal formula for turning non-monogamous species into monogamous species - turning up the activity of some genes and turning down others in the brain. [1] So much ink spent on debating whether we are monogamous by design or by choice. And yet, the most important choices are made against the design. And the greatest designs stand against any choice. What defines both is the void in between. You are what you are. Look at your wife. Do you really believe you can love anyone else than you? Do you believe there exists anyone but you? Watch closely. Can you touch the mirror?

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Philosophy Wire: Marriage, heart, science, religion.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-05-08]: People who are married have lower rates of several cardiovascular diseases compared with those who are single, divorced or widowed, according to research to be presented at the American College of Cardiology's 63rd Annual Scientific Session. [1] Old religious advice, forgotten in the context of "modern", are now coming back as "scientific" conclusions. What we once knew, we learn again... The heart was always wiser than the brain...

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Philosophy Wire: Stay away from me...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-09-17]:

All people have a "personal area" around them which they do not want breached by others. Scientists "measured" it starting from our face and ending at about 20-40 centimeters from it. [1] I wonder, what does it take to be a great man? Reducing that area to zero so as to accept others or expand it to infinity so as to consider others as "you"?

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Philosophy Wire: China, Airbus, Nietzsche and pseudo-ecology.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-03-08]: China retaliated against the European carbon tax and froze the Airbus deals it had planned [source: web news]. It seems to me that the European pseudo-ecologists will soon bow to the philosophical doctrine “the economical stronger party does whatever he wants”… Isn’t that what they do with Greece anyway? Nietzsche had said it: all relations are strong-weak relations.

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