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Wishing Doesn’t Make it So

Primacy of consciousness in Venezuela: wishing won't make food appear on the shelves.

photo from www.ecuadortimes.net

The Washington Post’s Matt O’Brien has a great article about the current situation in Venezuela. Early on he relates what can be described in philosophy as the primacy of consciousness, the idea that what you think is of greater importance than what is actually out there in reality.

It shouldn’t be this way. Venezuela, after all, has the largest read more