- Who is afraid of new ideas? The resistance of scientific journalism to brave and radical hypotheses. The case of Steve Ayan
By Riccardo Manzotti
October 16, 2022
In science, there are two kinds of new ideas: those that are objectively complex, and those that are simple but seem difficult primarily because they clash with entrenched assumptions and prejudices. […]
- La natura negativa del concetto di esperienza
By Riccardo Manzotti
July 1, 2020
Quando pensiamo alla nostra esperienza siamo subito portati a pensarla come diversa dall’esistente: da un lato il mondo nel suo esistere e dall’altro la nostra esperienza di esso. […]
- It is curious to worry about death if life is wasted
By Riccardo Manzotti
April 4, 2020
These days we are all grappling with a phantom that modern society thought it had completely exorcised: death. The grim reaper had been put aside and as Blaise Pascal, while lacking in humanity in my […]
- Q&A on the Spread Mind at the PCC Forum
By Riccardo Manzotti
March 13, 2020
Hello, this time I post a Q&A follow-up of the on-line meeting held at the PCC Forum on Match 8, 2020 thanks to the CIIS (San Francisco). Belowe there is a series of questions that the […]
- How should things look? Senses vs. common sense
By Riccardo Manzotti
March 6, 2020
One day Gertrude Anscombe, speaking with Ludwig Wittgenstein, had this exchange of views. He greeted her with the question: ‘”Why do people say that it was natural to think that the sun […]
- Nothing appears! Everything exists
By Riccardo Manzotti
February 27, 2020
Both in philosophy and in science, almost everyone believes that the world may appear different from what it is. Things seem small from far away, while they are big. The mirage seems to be made of […]
- Calories do not exist, but they’ll make you fat!
By Riccardo Manzotti
February 14, 2020
Every time we buy packaged food, even if we don’t pay attention to its box, it is very likely that it shows its material components. And so the label will informs that, per 100 grams of […]
- Metamerism and keys
By Riccardo Manzotti
February 4, 2020
What do the colors have to do with the keys to the apartments? Much more than it seems. Indeed, reasoning about keys and apartments will allow us to reveal an error behind a notion very dear to […]
- Fighting the modern gods
By Riccardo Manzotti
January 19, 2020
It’s easy to smile at the gods of the past and to the people who made sacrifices to Mitra, Zeus, and Osiris. Yet, in every age, there are principles that challenge rationality and that guide […]
- The Spread Mind in short
By Riccardo Manzotti
January 3, 2020
At the onset of 2020, a long-due short intro to the theory at hand is a good way to start. So let me tell you why the Spread Mind promises to solve one of the most difficult problems in the history […]
- The dam and the body
By Riccardo Manzotti
December 28, 2019
We often believe we are one and the same as our body or, if we give more consideration to the question, to be inside our body. Yet, if we think more, such ideas make little or no sense. If we split […]