In this blog post, we’ll explore the role war has played in human civilization and history, and the impact it has had on human development. Humanity has lived with war. We’ve been fighting wars since before records existed, and every country that has kept historical records has a record of warfare. This shows that warfare is not just a phenomenon specific to a particular time...
In this blog post, we explore the social stigma and marginalization of patients suffering from illness. The 21st century is the age of science. Science plays a key role in medicine, and with new treatments emerging one after another, diseases and physical challenges that have threatened humanity are being conquered one by one. However, human disease cannot be fully understood by science...
In this blog post, we explore the possibility of machine “pain” through functionalism and the Chinese room thought experiment. Identificationism, which emerged with the development of neuroscience, views mental states as identical to brain states. According to this view, all of our mental experiences and emotions are directly linked to the physical state of our brains, and the two concepts...
In this blog post, we’ll take a look at how technology and social structural changes in the information society affect our lives. With the rapid progress of informationization, the importance of information in modern society is increasing by leaps and bounds. The information society has already become an irreversible trend, affecting our lives in many ways. These changes are not just...
In this blog post, we take a deep dive into the question of whether international intervention on behalf of human rights brings peace or violates national sovereignty. When individual states seek to enforce their claims in the name of human rights, the issues at stake are never able to find a compromise, because if something is said only in the context of human rights, the dispute is...
In this blog post, we’ll explore human antisocial nature and how conflict drives progress. Nature utilizes conflict between humans to develop all of our qualities. Social order is achieved through these conflicts, which are caused by human antisociality. By antisocial sociability, we mean, on the one hand, the constant threat and rebellion to divide society, and, on the other hand...
In this blog post, we analyze the relationship between the fetus and the mother during pregnancy from a biological and ethical perspective, and explore which concept is more appropriate: parasitism or symbiosis. Pregnancy and childbirth have long been considered a sublime phenomenon for humans, both in the East and the West. Pregnancy is the fertilization of a fertilized egg by an egg and...
In this blog post, you’ll learn how a car moves us through its many parts and complex principles. We’ll explain the key principles in simple terms: engines, power transmission, braking, and more. The biggest difference between plants and animals is their ability to move around on their own, but humans aren’t the best at it. Nevertheless, one of the main reasons we are...
In this blog post, we’ll explore from a scientific and philosophical perspective whether genes determine human behavior, or whether we can reject them with our free will. Many science and engineering students have read or heard of the world-famous book The Selfish Gene by Clinton Richard Dawkins. In this book, the author explains evolution from the perspective of genes rather than...
In this blog post, we explore whether we can control the forces of nature with the technology we develop out of curiosity. Humans have wielded the powerful weapon of curiosity to create countless new technologies, and as a result, human technological progress has been the fastest in recent hundreds of years in human history. From this perspective, curiosity is the most influential emotion...