by Omar Meriwani | Mar 12, 2025 | Evolutionary Psychology
So, let’s move to the other important topic: eating disorders and their relationship to our evolutionary conditions. Does the concept of mismatch apply to them? The answer is yes—mismatch does apply, perhaps even more significantly than to any other condition. When I...
by Omar Meriwani | Mar 12, 2025 | Evolutionary Psychology
The modern environment—whether it’s the social environment or other aspects such as the kind of the foods we eat—differs from the original human environment, that of hunter-gatherers. This was the environment in which human traits evolved, and humans lived in for most...
by Omar Meriwani | Mar 12, 2025 | Evolutionary Psychology
Dear listeners, welcome to another episode of the Real Science Podcast. In this episode, we are interviewing Dr. Riadh Abed, a specialist in evolutionary psychiatry. Welcome, Dr. Riadh. We begin the interview by asking you about your work and a brief introduction...
by Omar Meriwani | Nov 6, 2024 | Pseudocience
On Stefano Bigliardi’s Reading of Hamza Tzortzis’s “The Divine Reality” Hamza Tzortzis is a British Islamic preacher active in discussions between atheism and religion, particularly Islam. His book, The Divine Reality: God, Islam and the Mirage of Atheism,...
by Omar Meriwani | Aug 18, 2024 | Philosophy, Psychology
It might be an unpleasant idea, but if you spit in a cup, can you re-drink your saliva? It seems like once something leaves your body, It’s no longer part of you, similar to hair or nails. This explains how we get our sense of self. Similarly, our bodies are home to...
by Omar Meriwani | Aug 18, 2024 | Philosophy, Psychology
In Chapter 12, Dennett addresses the concept of qualia—the way we subjectively experience things. Many philosophers argue that colours, for instance, are merely mental constructs rather than real properties of objects. Some argue that certain main features, like red,...
by Omar Meriwani | Aug 18, 2024 | Philosophy, Psychology
In Chapter 11, Dennett starts investigating the implications of the multiple drafts model, revisiting the reporting problem introduced in the previous chapter. Chapter 11 is called “dismantling the witness protection program”. Titled “Dismantling the...
