Martin Janello

Consciousness Formed Before Life Itself, Scientists Say—And the Evidence Could Be in This Asteroid Sample Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some scientists say support the workings of consciousness.

No, they don't. And no, it couldn't. www.popularmechanics.com/science/a700...

I just opened a new Reddit community, r/philosophyofhappiness, for academic and popular discussion of philosophical matters that matter to people. Please join me there. Also note my YouTube channel linked in bio.

crippled a country for greedy profit
moved manufacturing off-shore
few things are made here anymore
blaming china for taking the chore

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Chaos in and around us. We have a choice. Give in. Or start organizing our affairs in spite of it. My work can help you see how to go about this. Take a look at it. Visit the Philosophy of Happiness website referenced in my profile, with free access to all my work.

making lovers stay
there is no such thing
but one can make them go away

“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 4.
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i am less upset
about what you did
than that i must live
remembering it

“Knowing” series
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Very effective and very discreet support services by professional associations exist for lawyers, psychologists, and physicians. Why is there nothing like this for philosophy professionals?

"Public Philosophy Is Good - For Philosophy and For the Public"

A mostly sensible but more aspirational than factual APA blog by The Public Philosophy Network Executive Committee. Its examples show how ill-conceived and bizarre many forays are.

blog.apaonline.org/2019/03/...

Interested in public philosophy? Read 6 philosophical essays in the Reflections tab of the website in my profile. All my work is accessible free of charge on that site. Please tell others about this resource. I'd much appreciate your reposting. Thank you and a happy life!

your head resting
on my shoulder
makes me stronger but not bolder

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Humans create unnecessarily harsh conditions. To address them, we must comprehend them, question asserted causes, and imagine alternatives.

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Deutscher Idealismus : Philosophie u. Wirkungsgeschichte in Quellen u. Studien

17 Bände

Klett-Cotta, 1981-1994

out of print

500+ short philosophical quotes and poems in each travel-size volume of my 6-part Knowing series. Minimum commitment, about $16. Maximum consideration-provoking, entertaining reading pleasure.

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looking up to hot air balloons
all my idols have long flown

“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 6.
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Klaus Vieweg

Skepsis und Freiheit

Hegel über den Skeptizismus zwischen Philosophie und Literatur

Studien und Editionen zum deutschen Idealismus und zur Frühromantik, 10

jena-sophia 2007

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I curate a series of quotes from philosophical minds (not necessarily acknowledged philosophers) that echo or play into my philosophy and thus can be discussion crystallization points. My quotes and poems serve this purpose as well. See the Knowing tab of the site in my profile.

do you miss life as a real person
cleansed by harmonious nature

“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 4.
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"Every person of learning is finally his own teacher."

Thomas Paine

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University administrators: Departments should be required to state every year the intended societal benefits for each of their courses, as well as reviews of meeting these goals. Philosophy and other unproductive departments would then have to either shape up or be shipped out.

Amazing how many academics presume to judge people in the real world about whom and whose conditions they know only academically.

Witnessing budgetary and societal pressures on higher education planning, contrasted by uncompromising resistance to saving adjustments (combined with naïve "my-heart-goes-out-to the-losers" attitudes) in academic Philosophy, I foresee widespread wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Mindfulness is better called mindlessness. It may have a place. Yet we eventually must turn to arrange existential objectives and pursuits.

“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes & poems, Book 2.
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Speed-reading, memory, and other brain improvements are essential for humans to remain in charge of aptly applying expanding areas of required and other beneficial information.

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Institutional philosophy is a non-productive anachronism not worth preserving, apart from historical sources. The universal drive for knowledge it once represented long moved to resulting branches represented in university systems, which have developed their own philosophies.

You know what's missing? Courage. Sure, in part, we lack knowledge. And our abilities are limited. But it all stands or falls with our heart. We can feel what's wrong, but are conditioned not to look much at our self and settings to fight for good. Visit the site in my profile.

what if i were
her everything
i could not bear
the fix i'd be in

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i often think
where mankind would be
if no one were willing
to fight one another

“Knowing” series
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"Whoever denies reason does not experience its reality; whoever expects it meets it."

Karl Jaspers

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i don't care anymore
about what you said
i should let go
is this enough to have us back

“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 3.
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filled with love
that no one wanted
she had to kill it to survive

“Knowing” series
of philosophical quotes and poems, Book 2.
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