Omar Hernandez
Omar Hernandez is a physical scientist and a writer.
If America had a brain, we could say it’s losing cortical tissue. The neocortex—the part of our brain that helps us plan, learn, and think beyond the moment—balances long-term planning against short-term reflex.
The inability of United States policy-makers to criticize Israel is unsurprising, since undemocratic authority is the bread and butter of American governance. At the most explicit level, millions of legally disenfranchised people who live and work in the United States, immigrants and prisoners, are excluded from having a say in a government that imposes its authority on them.
The capitalist system relies on nested top-down structures of limited variety compared to the highly unregulated variety it produces in the form of technical and logistical complexity.
Steven Pinker, a Harvard psychologist and one of the most popular Rationalists, has published a book called Rationality,3 based on a course he gives at Harvard, in which he treats the subject of reason scientifically, elaborating on subjects such as logic, probability theory, and cognitive psychology.
