Our Theory-Laden Perception builds a better and better representation of the world around us. It is NOT a “controlled hallucination”, but rather a constructed model of that world which the Continue Reading →
Terrence Howard (TH) is an American actor who spoke at the Oxford Union on 11/23/17. He has recently made quite an internet splash by appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast, twice Continue Reading →
Yuval Noah Harari: NYT Bestselling Israeli historian. Pof. Harari writes some interesting books about humans: popular and entertaining chronicles of our history and possible future. As a PhD and Professor Continue Reading →
The Lascaux Cave Apse-Shaft Paintings – circa 17,000 B.P., Dordogne France: This photographic image from a rather inaccesible section of the Lascaux Cave (in a far end and down a Continue Reading →
This essay is about what do we do with our consciousness, every waking minute of thought: model the future and plan behaviors in the world that we consider doing the Continue Reading →
I’ve been reading the animal behavior literature for a few decades now. There is some excellent work by dozens of researchers exploring how animals behave and learn and remember and Continue Reading →
Kids explore, Kids build, Kids figure out how stuff “works”. It’s built-in, innate. Nobody teaches them to zoom across the living room floor to get into…everything. And then start touching, Continue Reading →
The 2012 Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, signed by a number of researchers on the subject, declares that animals have consciousness because they have similar neural structures to those we humans Continue Reading →
Despite the un-precedented science-illiterate if not outright science, even reality denying administration we have been saddled with by the archaic and entrenched Electoral College system, this article from Forbes magazine Continue Reading →
John C. Wathey’s clearly written and interesting book, The Illusion of God’s Presence is certainly worth the read for a good exposition on the intersection of science and belief: 320 Continue Reading →
