Is Low Solar Energy Causing Reduction in Serotonin and Leading to the Obesity and Mental Health Crisis? https://www.jneurophilosophy.com/index.php/jnp/article/view/124 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14272583 Abstract We are living in a historical period in respect to the deterioration in public health, as we experience the rise of the catastrophic obesity epidemic and mental health crisis in recent decades, despite the great efforts from the scientific and medical community to seek health solutions and to try to find… Read More
How Testosterone and Serotonin Drive the Shift in Global Power Dynamics, and Geopolitics of Social Conflict in the Clash of Civilizations My new scientific article published in the Journal of NeuroPhilosophy in this link: https://www.jneurophilosophy.com/index.php/jnp/article/view/52 Abstract The recent atrocious war starting in 2022 between Russia and Ukraine has highlighted the underlying fundamental tensions between the two polar sides of the Eurasian grand supercontinent, connecting Western Europe (and also the United States across the Atlantic Ocean, further… Read More
THE TESTOSTERONE PARADOX: HOW SEX HORMONES SHAPE THE ACADEMIC MIND LINK: http://eiris.it/ojs/index.php/scienceandphilosophy/article/view/453 THE TESTOSTERONE PARADOX: HOW SEX HORMONES SHAPE THE ACADEMIC MIND Roy Barzilai ABSTRACT In my work I argue that sexual differences in the brain seem to shape the ideological gulf between the respective social groups each side represents. And most significantly, it is the male sex hormone testosterone that is the primary hormone… Read More
Will the 70-year Life-Cycle Bring the Breakup of the United States in 2024 Sex wars have been the driving force causing the western cultural divide as a wedge between the yin-yang, feminine-masculine power dynamics is causing a breakup of the traditional family, fall in gender identification, and collapse of normative heterosexuality, opposite-sex in sexual attraction. These dynamic changes in the sexual organization of culture, also leads to phase… Read More
Will the seven-century historically recurring life-cycle bring the collapse of Civilization in the 21st century? Seven-century Cycle of history: 19th century BCE – Fall of Sumerian civilization , Sodom And Gomorrah period [1] – Rise of Ancient Egypt 13th century BCE – 10 Plagues on Egypt, The Bronze Age Collapse – Mediterranean Apocalypse [2] – Rise of Ancient Israel 6th century BCE – Fall of First Temple in Jerusalem – Rise… Read More
LOW SOLAR ACTIVITY, WINTER FLU CONDITIONS, PANDEMICS AND SEX WARS: A HOLISTIC VIEW OF HUMAN EVOLUTION My third article published in academic SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHY journal: LOW SOLAR ACTIVITY, WINTER FLU CONDITIONS, PANDEMICS AND SEX WARS: A HOLISTIC VIEW OF HUMAN EVOLUTION Press link for PDF ABSTRACT The current spread of coronavirus has caught our modern world by surprise, which leads to widespread panic, fear and confusion. However, if we view the… Read More
SOLAR CYCLES, LIGHT, SEX HORMONES AND THE LIFE CYCLES OF CIVILIZATION: TOWARD INTEGRATED CHRONOBIOLOGY My second article published in academic SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHY journal. SOLAR CYCLES, LIGHT, SEX HORMONES AND THE LIFE CYCLES OF CIVILIZATION: TOWARD INTEGRATED CHRONOBIOLOGY Roy Barzilai ABSTRACT The emerging discipline of complexity science, applied to the social sciences, seeks to study the rise of human civilization as a part of a natural, evolving biological system… Read More
Jordan Peterson, Jonathan Haidt and the New Synthesis Professor Jordan Peterson is an intellectual leader of our time. He is taking part in a new scientific revolution, a groundbreaking effort to understand the workings of the human mind, culture, and religious worldviews and how they are shaped by evolved psychological adaptations that determine our social structure and philosophy of life. This new scientific… Read More
Light and Enlightenment philosophy As I marked with arrows on the chart, rising solar activity impelled the period of the Enlightenment, particularly by Puritans in England: from the natural philosophy of Newton and John Locke’s ideal of liberty, to the Founding Fathers of the United States in 1776. But, as solar radiation peaked, began a long period… Read More