Posted in October 6, 2010 ¬ 5:20 amh.Hamed Movahedipour
Myth is one of the known mechanisms to equip human with meaning, without providing abstract and conceptual schemes. The mythic mind talks about life by simply painting what life looks like in numerous situations. For instance, direction for a mythic mind is provided by landmarks and not abstract longitude & latitude in GPS. Hence, no [...]
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Posted in August 4, 2010 ¬ 4:35 amh.Hamed Movahedipour
The goal of our genes is self-spreading. We are somehow the product of our genes. Are our goals completely inline with our genes goal? Are our goals somehow sub-goals of our genes goal? To what extent we care about spreading genes? Are all human social systems, culture, or meaning-construction systems like religion and philosophies implicitly [...]
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Posted in July 29, 2010 ¬ 9:55 amh.Hamed Movahedipour
Human mind needs order, certainty, explicit explanations and structure to be able to grasp and categorize phenomena of the world and also understand why he exists. The interesting fact is that myth and philosophy fulfill this human need but of course in different ways. Philosophy provides order and stability by illustration of abstract, universal and [...]
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