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“Otherness” VS. “Culture”
“Otherness” VS. “Culture” Milton J. Bennett, Ph.D. April, 2023 For most of my career, I have been postulating, propounding, proselytizing, and pleading that the concept “culture” includes all kinds of diversity…
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Human Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence
Milton J. Bennett, Ph. D. March 12, 2023 Intelligence, including pattern recognition, is indeed an algorithm as Harari (Sapiens) and others argue, and thus can be implemented either biologically (in the brain) or…
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Meeting the (Intercultural) Future
Meeting the (Intercultural) Future Milton J. Bennett, Ph.D. January 11, 2021 When we think of building a more equitable and inclusive future, the task may seem overwhelming, especially in…
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Why America Was Great
Why America Was Great Milton J. Bennett, Ph.D. August 28, 2020 Much ink has flowed about the greatness of American ideals (and the failure in so many cases to enact them).…
April 21, 2021 -
Why Doesn’t This Feel Weirder?
Why Doesn’t This Feel Weirder? Milton J. Bennett, Ph.D. March 28, 2020 I am an American currently in Milan, where I arrived from…
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RPCV: Really Prepared for Corona Virus
RPCV: Really Prepared for Corona Virus Milton J. Bennett, Ph.D. March 22, 2020 As a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, for years I’ve regaled…
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Power and Paradigms
Power and Paradigms Milton J. Bennett, Ph.D. www.idrinstitute.org July 21, 2019 I suppose most readers of this blog will agree that the current political…
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Intercultural Consciousness
Intercultural Consciousness By Milton J. Bennett, Ph.D. January 30, 2019 In his book Origin of Consciousness…, Julian Jaynes suggests that self-consciousness as we now experience it is a relatively new phenomenon that…
January 30, 2019 -
We are all Losers
We are all Losers By Milton J. Bennett The losers in the current US presidential travesty are not just those of us who voted against a bigoted ignoramus, nor are…
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Darwin on Trump: Size Does Matter
Darwin on Trump: Size Does Matter By Milton J. Bennett Size matters, but it doesn’t make you superior. I’m talking about finch beaks, of course. In the last political campaign…
February 26, 2017