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Principles vs rules

The anthropic principle

The anthropic principle has nothing to do with a time period called anthropocene, apart from the fact that anthro means human. Hence, anthropology refers to a scientific study of humanity (ie, us). The anthropic principle is about the limits of our senses (eg, feeling, hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting). Everything else might be an unknown unknown. This explains...

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The law of unintended consequences

A few minutes ago, a thought 'entered' my mind: the law of unintended consequences. I wanted to waive it because I was sure that I had written about it. I did not though. I only mentioned it in a few blogs: If Good does bad, does Good become Bad? (2021) and The micro-macro conundrum (2019). The law of unintended consequences is the principle that actions often...

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What if there’s no ideology behind the American chaos??

What if there’s no ideology behind the American chaos??

My 2016 triangle of 3 dimensions, Love, Knowledge & Power, including 7 Belief systems: (1) Love (1x Love), (2) Money, Politics, Religion (3x Power), and (3) Philosophy, Science, and the Truth (3x Knowledge). Please see my - still evolving - diagram below: Source: my 2020 blog Source: my 2025 blog is it possible that the 2025 American political chaos does not...

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Done with USA (2)

On April 23, I published my blog Done with USA and largely switched to other topics. Since that blog, matters only deteriorated. Each day, USA finds a new low. Since some weeks, I'm no longer taking that country any serious. Increasingly, USA is behaving like autocracies (eg, FT, China, Russia). Are you able taking USA serious? If so, how and why ?? Feel free to...

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Emigration has become a “No”

About three decades ago, my post-retirement plan was to emigrate to Italy and to live on the beautiful island of Sicily. Today, my emigration is a no. A soft "no" that is slowly turning into a hard one. Recently, someone asked me to join him in living in Spain. I told him that Denmark is more likely. My principle in life is having only one (1) deficiency (eg,...

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Sherlock Holmes vs Occam’s razor

Occam's razor is a problem-solving principle that suggests the simplest explanation for a phenomenon is usually the best one. Sherlock Holmes' principle seems (very) different: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Wiki) Both principles rely on statistical probabilities. Quite often, the...

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