2 Posts found for Author: Melanie Challenger

Our bodies are sublime, rebellious colonies of cells and our minds are floating, chameleon-like processes. This doesn’t mean that we should see human life as meaningless. Thinking we are exceptional is different from thinking our lives have meaning. There’s every reason to believe that our sense of significance is something we can’t do without. But the weighing of human significance is less a fact of … [ Read more ]

Author: Melanie Challenger | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

The myth of human exceptionalism is as unsettling as it is irrational. The idea of our superiority runs with mercenary and sometimes aggressive features of our psychology. Being animal is a kind of syndrome for us, a peculiar combination of symptoms, emotions and opinions. It’s something we deny, manipulate as a weapon and seek to escape. At other times, being animal is given as a … [ Read more ]

Author: Melanie Challenger | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior