Black Holes and Belonging
So when I talk about a snowflake melting or subatomic particles coming together – basically that fundamental connection in which qualia helps matter endure – and I say there’s a sense of belonging, well, even though we don’t want to call it consciousness (because we just don’t know) we actuallyContinue Reading
Say It Ain’t So!
It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that ain’t so — Artemus Ward (1834 – 1867) Take for instance, that grass is green, or that rocks are hard. We know they are. Except we don’t because they onlyContinue Reading
Controlled Spontaneity
So there’s nothing wrong with our ability to use logic, to reason, to pick up lots of facts and induce truths from them, manufacture hypotheses or deduce things from those. That’s all great. It’s really good. But that is merely the control part of any conscious ritual. Even a scientistContinue Reading