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13. Nurturing Genius

Overspecialisation in the area of development is accompanied by failure of natural awareness and

 

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12. Audacious and brilliant intuitions

Summary: Having established that society and the human mind follow the same divergent p

 

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traps

Progress, the video
Scholasticism
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solutions

Venice (beginnings)
Darwin and poetry
Friar Roger Bacon
Left brain and right brain
Sustainable development
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insight

Progress or Paradigm?
Division of mental labour
Galileo, wrong??
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