Category: philosophy
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How long are we not going to Admit Our Confirmation Bias?
Scenario 1: You Have logged in Instagram, to check your feed, and just like that, fifteen minutes zaps by! Scenario 2: You have logged in to YouTube, and you keep on viewing the videos that are being dished out to you, endlessly just to realise that itâs already 3 am! We All have gone through…
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Can We Stop Saying “The New Normal” Now
There’s no point in contact continuously saying new normal because there is nothing normal about this “New normal”. This 2020 has shown us a lot. With more than a crore case and over the Lac deceased with crippling blow to our economy, with subsequent lockdowns, there’s nothing normal about this “New normal”. Constantly re iterating…
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4 Reasons You should Stop your Positive thinking Jibe Right now
Dear reader, the horde of Good morning Posts with Positivity and positive thinking you get to see on Instagram and Facebook and now on WhatsApp., with so much jibe about positivity all around you, donât you think people must feel very positive right? The idea is like people having so much cakes and desserts and…
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4 Ways Facebook Can Kill Your Imagination
Hey!, if you are here from Facebook, then you must think this is hypocrisy to its maximum. But given the reach of this social media behemoth, there is a high probability of you being here from said source. Hence, I will ask you to pause for a minute and contemplate, How much time are you…
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Can I Have Your Attention Please Because Where Attention goes money flows
New Oil of this century, And No it is Not Data, it is Your Attention – Where attention goes money flows You May have heard about this phrase that âData is the New Oilâ. Data will Rule Supreme, etc.⌠I am not disagreeing to the might of data or its importance but am simply pointing…
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If you ask âWhy Life is So Boringâ then, Congrats! You Might be on the Cusp of Something
The Title may seem a bit of an oxymoron on a first glance basis, so I would request you to ponder a bit. Think of any random day, between work or doing anything your favourite trifecta of friends the YouTube or The Twitter or The Facebook, lures you in and You swipe information after information…
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How knowledge can keep you from knowledge?
Before we go, actually, I go into this intellectual indulgence, lets ponder What Is Knowledge? And Why the Feck do we care Knowledge is the awareness and understanding of aspects of reality. It is the clear, lucid information gained through the process of reason applied to reality. An understanding of knowledge requires some grasp of…
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How twitter can teach us about Absolutism
But before we go into that, What the heck is Absolutism? Absolutism is a theory where unlimited, complete power is held by a centralized sovereign individual, with no checks or balances from any other part or person what so ever The word Absolutism came from From Latin absolutum: which means detached, independent, and completed. There…
Dwaipayan Chakraborty 