why Kripke’s concept of neccesity has litle power

You can read here the excelent article on Kripke’s solution to the quinean position.

mirroring neurons : the next revolution?

See MIRROR NEURONS AND THE BRAIN IN THE VAT by V.S. Ramachandran. It’s a proposal for a rational explanation of the dissolution of them self/them distinction.

Researchers at UCLA [1] found that cells in the human anterior cingulate, which normally fire when you poke the patient with a needle (“pain neurons”), will also fire when the patient watches another patient being poked. The mirror neurons, it would seem, dissolve the barrier between self and others. I call them “empathy neurons” or “Dalai Llama neurons”. (I wonder how the mirror neurons of a masochist or sadist will respond to another person being poked.) Dissolving the “self vs. other” barrier is the basis of many ethical systems, especially eastern philosophical and mystical traditions. This research implies that mirror neurons can be used to provide rational rather than religious grounds for ethics (although we must be careful not to commit the is/ought fallacy).

superb article regarding the 90′ generation from Romania

See http://www.revistapresei.ro/articol_61607-Generatia-reparata-de-Dragos-Bucurenci.htm

for a very short but incisive perspective upon the “the romanian dream” and some of it’s pitfalls.