Is thinking more important than doing? 2022 was a year of great ideas, from science to virtual reality to the best ways to help others.
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Review of the year: the ideas that shaped us
Is thinking more important than doing? 2022 was a year of great ideas, from science to virtual reality to the best ways to help others.
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Having new ideas is a part of being human. Coming up with new ideas, and putting them into practice, helps to make the world a better place.
There were many new ideas in 2022.
The philosopherA thinker who comes up with ideas about big questions in life. David Chalmers wrote a book arguing that we are already living in a virtual realityA 3D world that someone can interact with inside of a computer. . If it is possible, someone will already have done it, he says.
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William MacAskill, another philosopher, argues that if you want to do good, you should do things that will help lots of people in the future, rather than some people now.
Shatzi Weisberger argued that we should stop being scared of death. We should talk more about death to live a life without fear.
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Yes! History will remember the thinkers that drove our world forward. It is big ideas that matter, not small actions.
No! We spend so much time thinking about problems that we hardly ever do things to actually solve them.
Philosopher - A thinker who comes up with ideas about big questions in life.
Virtual reality - A 3D world that someone can interact with inside of a computer.
Review of the year: the ideas that shaped us
Novel ideas: Thinkers challenged everything from Newton's theory of gravity to the fabric of consciousness itself. Glossary
Philosopher - A thinker who comes up with ideas about big questions in life.
Virtual reality - A 3D world that someone can interact with inside of a computer.