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• Why the people who actually drive history aren't in the textbooks

  By Jonny Thomson| Big Think Verified A place to pause and reflect on life’s bigger questions, with Big Think’s Jonny Thomson. History is often told through the stories of individuals. We have movies about kings, YouTube videos about generals, books about inventors, and talks about revolutionaries. These are the Great Men (almost always men) whose names headline the textbooks: Napoleon, Darwin, Gandhi, Churchill.

  By Jonny Thomson · Big Think

  Apr. 16, 2025

• Epiphenomenalism: One of philosophy's most disturbing ideas

  By Jonny Thomson| Big Think Verified A place to pause and reflect on life’s bigger questions, with Big Think’s Jonny Thomson. This article was first published on Big Think in September 2022. It was updated in March 2025. What if you don’t matter? What if all of your thoughts, precious feelings, great dreams, and terrible fears are completely, utterly, spectacularly irrelevant?

  By Jonny Thomson · Big Think

  Apr. 12, 2025

• Epiphenomenalism: One of philosophy's most disturbing ideas

  By Jonny Thomson| Flipboard@ 2 hours agoCrows are able to look at a handful of four-sided shapes and correctly distinguish those that exhibit geometric regularity from those that don't, according to a provocative new study. It's the first time a species other than humans has been shown to have this kind of geometric intuition, says …

  By Jonny Thomson · Flipboard

  Apr. 12, 2025

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