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As all of the civilized world continues to delight in the heavenly soundscapes of Radiohead’s amazing new record, In Rainbows, rabid RH fans are hard at work analyzing the album with a fine-toothed microscope made of mixed metaphors and rock ‘n roll conspiracy theories. An article at Puddlegum delves into the mysterious recurrence of […]

While researching ideas for a potential little section called “Atheists with Attitude” for the next issue of WIE, I came across this awesome deconstruction of Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion. It’s called, fittingly, “The Dawkins Confusion” and was written by Alvin Plantinga, a philosophy professor at Notre Dame. His ripping conclusion beautifully dovetails off […]

I was just looking at the cover of the October issue of Scientific American, sitting here on my desk, and was intrigued by this metaphysically loaded cover line:

CONSCIOUSNESS
Scientists Debate How
Neurons Make Us Aware

Now, does that cover line even make sense in a materialistic framework? How neurons make “us” aware? Are “we” the physical […]

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  • Welcome to the personal blog of Tom Huston, one of the editors at What Is Enlightenment? magazine. Arising from the cultural milieu of late 20th-century America, armed with the combined powers of Integral Theory and Evolutionary Enlightenment, he has become … Kosmic Tom.
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