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• A reply on Conversation: Is Psychology applied Philosophy? Should we study closer at the underlying philosophical foundations of many Psichology theories/research?

  Sep 4 2012: Thanks for the ppt, looks interesting. In the other hand the question remains, with so much ground breaking research into human interaction and psychology some of the underliying philosophical assumptions are starting to crumble. Symply from the fact that they were conceived at a time where it was impossible to attemp its empirical study, with what we know they can and they should be contested in a way or another.
  Hence why the simil of applied physics to theoretical physics in the relationship between psychology and philosophy seems attractive as an idea to me.

• A reply on Conversation: Is Psychology applied Philosophy? Should we study closer at the underlying philosophical foundations of many Psichology theories/research?

  Sep 4 2012: Your argument that now with technology many beliefs that would only be based in logic, and that in the past were approached naturally and only through Philosophy, and that now can be transitioned to be empirically validated in the realms of Psychology, is precisely the core of my question.
  
  More to your argument, since so many new things are being researched and discovered in the Psychology sphere, why is that the fundamental construct and discarding process of Philosophy have not been altered to adjust to this fact yet? In many ways Psychology is providing the elements for beliefs that culture is transforming into a Philosophy of life for many people, naturally, where ancient Philosophy takes much longer to embrace.
  
  On the other hand, assuming that everything would be determined and scientifically proven is not completely acceptable either. Where then, Philosophy would always have a place as a discipline of approximation to issues that are difficult to be determined empirically, but yet the connection to Psychology needs to be drawn closer, so what cannot tested today might be the research of tomorrow?
  
  Thanks for you answer

• A reply on Conversation: Technology is making life simpler and allowing people more time for other things. But, do people know what to do with that time?

  Aug 19 2012: Agree, it can't be better put. Only issue is back then a merchant came every once in a while, now comes every minute, and people is buying! Thanks for sending me back to the little prince!

• A reply on Conversation: Technology is making life simpler and allowing people more time for other things. But, do people know what to do with that time?

  Aug 17 2012: Hi Eric, thanks for your post. The value placed and conscious choice of activities is a key realization one needs to be more responsible of. How is that more difficult with technological pace, I think it is.
  
  How we as individuals and corporate citizens (for me of a technology player) balance this issue in the new technologies and business models of the future, is a very interesting area to explore.

• A reply on Conversation: Technology is making life simpler and allowing people more time for other things. But, do people know what to do with that time?

  Aug 17 2012: Hi Lejan, interesting argument. I guess the question would be about conscious choice, rather than just spinning the wheel without a clear direction of where that leads us. You can say is money, but generally speaking, after one has the minimum covered, $ does not provide a purpose fix into someone’s life, is too exterior driven. Thinking intrinsic, and different from many other species, there is an argument to say that we seem to seek this higher purpose as a form of natural selection, where purpose abides a group, keep it together, and make it conquer higher spheres in a much more efficient way than an individual would do, all with the side effect of making the individual grow and filled with meaning in the process. So, in the end I agree we should be looking forward to the free time, however still not clear we are using it or is the free time using us?

• A reply on Conversation: Technology is making life simpler and allowing people more time for other things. But, do people know what to do with that time?

  Aug 17 2012: Hi Fritizie, thanks for your reply. I think more than not knowing is not making a conscious choice on using the time provided for more than just the automatic impulse activities, or what is considered as generally gratifying. There is an argument that when only concentrating on those an individual will not lead itself to long term development and society contribution. Maybe a small problem of purpose for one in the everyday, but a real issue when compounded around society with the pace of technological advance.

• A reply on Conversation: Technology is making life simpler and allowing people more time for other things. But, do people know what to do with that time?

  Aug 16 2012: Hi Scott, Thanks for your post, and I agree in regards to spare time, sometimes they do, but on aggregate I believe society has always been impacted by technology. A thought experiment, after the Ford T, which was absolutely less time consuming in transportation than a horse carriage, what did people do with the extra time provided? Leisure activities? Instant gratification ? or Many more church and community activities that they could not carry before? Now compound that with the super-fast crazy technological advancements of today, are we able to catch –up? Or are we left hollow and dull, as don’t know what to do with the extra time provided?

• A reply on Conversation: Technology is making life simpler and allowing people more time for other things. But, do people know what to do with that time?

  Aug 16 2012: I think what I'm trying to understand is this. If I aggregate the amount of time Technology has allowed society to gain back from previously time consuming activities, what has each of us done with that time? Are we using it to enhance the quality of people lives even further, or does it just remain like an empty space that we don't know how to use? Seems to me many advancements in technology provides this extra time, but on the other hand, as we don't know what to do with it, we just fall into more and more quick and easy fillers of this new life provided to us. Some people say, hence the raise in depression (shallowness derived), drugs consumption, media consumption, and easy gratification. Is technology providing the time but we as human beings have not prepared to use it for our society and individual general life improvement purpose?

• A comment on Conversation: Where are the Telemedicine startups concentrated? which countries, and particularly where in the US?

  Jul 18 2012: Hi Debra, would you know what region in Canada? is there a specific organization that group the companiesor startups in Telemedicine? who is the biggest investor public or private? Thanks fo the help!