Planet Qualia

Obviously, routine needs to change sometimes. Indeed, traditions need to change sometimes. But traditions exist in history. So we don’t necessarily lose tradition. If we stop following one, it still stays in our cultural genes, just the way atavistic DNA does, to be resurrected when needed.  That is why weContinue Reading

A quite remarkable way to differentiate ecosystems from the human landscape is that ecosystems do not facilitate addictions. Certainly, in ecosystems, there are seasons of plenty when Big Dopamine runs high, but they do not last long, and the creatures of the forests and the seas and even the desertsContinue Reading

Scientists have isolated parts of the brain and hormones that make us participate in hardcore realities, like sex, violence, dominance, and even war. But why have they been unable to find a love drive, or a justice instinct, or a peace hormone?  They may have found some relative correlative inContinue Reading