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
The Glazov Gang – Sex Wars: Low Testosterone and the Islamization of the West. Sex Wars: Low Testosterone and the Islamization of the West — Glazov Gang … Read More
Sex Wars: The Fall of Western Dominance We live in a period of history in which intensifying gender, race and religious wars are leading to political disputes over nationalism versus globalism and threatening Western liberty with a return to primitive tribalism. Each side in the conflict, from conservatives and libertarians on the right, to liberals on the left, has its own high… Read More
Press Release – The Testosterone Hypothesis New Book makes case that testosterone is the key biological factor that drives the engine of human culture and history. THE TESTOSTERONE HYPOTHESIS: How Hormones Regulate the Life Cycles of Civilization is Roy Barzilai’s next provocative book, following last year’s release of THE OBJECTIVE BIBLE: Western Civilization’s Struggle for Philosophic Liberation from a… Read More
The singularity and the Tree of Knowledge Faith and reason: the Singularity from a biblical perspective Since the Garden of Eden, when man first ate from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, to the collapse of reason during the Dark Ages, to the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason, to the modern day of information technology, man’s mind has functioned in… Read More