The Liminal Learning Portal

Do you know the vertical layers of the psyche?

Slow down, question strong reactions, and ask others for their “intuitive” take.

The COVID crisis showed how group decision-making can be chaotic and polarized. The General Collective Intelligence platform is a model for how we might do better in the future.

Trying to approach the human condition through quick fixes and the latest research findings is deeply misguided. Psychology needs a new direction.

The ego is one of the most important but complicated constructs in psychology. Here’s why we can think of it as the mental organ of justification.

Psychology defines its subject matter by the methods of science. This is deeply flawed.

The complicated motives that sometimes underlie giving.

Physical processes, conscious experience, and the social construction of reality are three major philosophical perspectives on the nature of reality.

Science is mindblind. We can fix this by applying the Unified Theory of Knowledge to see animal-mental evolution, culture-person evolution, and idiographic subjectivity.

Four scientific worldviews are described that adopt different stances on reductionism, emergence, and the nature of consciousness.