DIVERSITY Living things are less linear maybe non-deterministic compared with inanimate objects. We talk about the struggle for existence. I’m observing in my garden plants competing with each other for light. Deciduous trees crowd out smaller bushes down below depriving them of light stunting their growth. Vines grow like epiphytes loving to climb up over…
Uncluttered Mind When an English as a second language teacher told me the real reason for kids facility with language was that their minds aren’t gummed up with their native tongue, I had an epiphany. Maybe the different learning style of kids had little to do with anatomical brain differences from the the mature brain…
Amazing how one thing leads to the other. Were you taken in by Kim Jung Un’s charm offensive – little red outfitted cheer leaders and Ms Kim Yo-Jong his little sister, diplomat to the Olympic games their outsized hotel and other expenses fully financed by N. Korea’s mortal enemy to the south? Having recently read…
If you have a brain, you carry an inner reproduction of the outside world. Your body is also represented in facsimile inside your skull. Among other things your personal inner facsimile lets you try things out inside the confines of your own head, to rehearse scenarios without worrying they will kill you. Inner imagery allows…
I live in a quiet neighborhood. If I should go out in the middle of the night, say 2 AM, all is silent and you can see a part of the sky through tall trees, shadows cast by the few dim foundation lights around other houses. Generally there are no animals making noises. Occasionally a…
A Place and a Name “In My house and within My walls I will give them a place of honor and renown which is better than sons and daughters; eternal renown will I give them, which will never be terminated,” – Isaiah 56:5 What I like about Dante is that he puts every…
What I Learned in Ecuador: Here’s a nifty fact. There are about 200,000 wolves on the earth, but 550 million dogs. Dogs are domestic wolves, bred by men for our own purposes. There are 20 thousand lions but 600 million house cats. In fact, as I am reading in a new book Homo Deus by…
Future Man All of us can look forward to the extinction of our own life, though some like myself dwell on this much more than others. I am one who does what every popular psychologist tells us abjectly not to do. Practically all of them recommend we live for the present only, whereas I find…
Talking to a retired physical chemist in my office I asked of his interests outside his specialty. I was surprised to hear that he was reading avidly and studying the future of humankind. He said, “Time has come for mankind to change to a new form hitherto unknown.” I thought, that’s an odd thing for…
Future Man: Eutopia or Dystopia There are many who will read the description of man in the future that I present, a best guess at a look at the future a sort of science fiction model and say I don’t like it. I feel that way myself a lot of the time. People in their…