Posts by Jack Dikian

08 Jul

Law & Politics

Lee Kuan Yew’s insight into the fall of democracies

• 08/07/2025
• By Jack Dikian
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Long before Australia saw four sitting prime ministers deposed by their own parties between 2010 and 2018, before the United Kingdom sa...

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22 Apr

Philosophy & Psychology

Pauli, Freud and Jung: A revolution in the world of psychology

• 22/04/2025
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By the end of 1930, Austrian-born theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli was experiencing a cascade of troubles that had begun alm...

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09 Aug

Philosophy & Psychology

What 17th-century philosophy can tell us about artificial intelligence

• 11/07/2024
• By Jack Dikian
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René Descartes' interests extended to diverse subjects, and one of the most striking subjects he studied was machine thinking. That he ...

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21 Jun

Science & Health

Reacting to pandemics

• 21/06/2023
• By Jack Dikian
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The New Testament (Matthew 11:29) describes the relationship we have – or should have – with Jesus as a kind of work. “Take my y...

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01 May

Philosophy & Psychology

A genealogy of panic disorder in the 20th century

• 01/05/2023
• By Jack Dikian
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One of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne, was a thinker noted for merging casual anecdot...

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03 Mar

Science & Health

The future role of human judgement

• 06/03/2023
• By Jack Dikian
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There is an old Chinese curse, “May you live in an interesting age.” It continues: “They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they ...

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21 Feb

Philosophy & Psychology

When faith and reality collide in pandemics

• 22/07/2022
• By Jack Dikian
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The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346-53. It is the m...

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01 Dec

Philosophy & Psychology

On dying

• 09/09/2022
• By Jack Dikian
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Philosophy begins with the death of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates. But, as we know, he goes to his death with equanimity – wit...

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08 Jun

Philosophy & Psychology

The lost notebooks: Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s extraordinary story

• 02/10/2021
• By Jack Dikian
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Srinivasa Ramanujan's story is one of the great romantic tales of mathematics. It is an account of triumph and tragedy, of a man of gen...

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05 Dec

Science & Health

Are conspiracy theories just part of our evolutionary history?

• 09/09/2022
• By Jack Dikian
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Conspiracy theories and medical misinformation about the coronavirus started to spread through social media sites almost immediately af...

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