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-presidented 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 →
Elizabeth King, a budding young Chicago writer, has an interesting plaint in the Washington Post describing how tough it can be to shake off the indoctrination of religion in I’m Continue Reading →
Dr. Darrel Ray and his Secular Sexuality podcast! On this weeks installment I get interviewed about all things atheist and sexual and psychology and religion and the Pope and gay Continue Reading →
WHAT’S WITH IT WITH WOMEN AND WHY ARE WE SO DISINCLINED TO COMMENT? (Waz note: A second Dispatch from Down Under guest post. Enjoy!) It would be impossible to go Continue Reading →
Time magazine’s recent special edition: “100 Most Influential People of 2015” featured Malala Yousafzai and Pope Francis together side by side on the last page (152) of the Icons section. Continue Reading →
