Eight Deeply Ingrained Concepts

Ideas that are so fundamental it's really hard to see them

I woke up with this strange question in my head: What fundamental concepts are so deeply ingrained in Western culture that we’re not even aware of them? Does modern science challenge some of these ideas and offer us another way to regard them?

I’ll start with eight, and maybe you can think of more. I’ll list all eight (so that free subscribers can read t…