The naming of things has been central to making the human being what it is. Naming separates matter of things from the life, the motion, and the change which is their non-material essence. It turns subjects into objects, and objects into possessions (which, it turns out, own us). It takesContinue Reading
If we think of Little Dopamine, it’s kind of like all the little tiny creatures on the planet. I’m not talking about meek mice and anxious sparrows so much as the bacteria and microbes in the soil. Real tiny. We ignore them at our own peril – they play suchContinue Reading
One might suppose, that since virtually all creatures have their consciousness imposed upon them from outside, that they are inferior to man, who is the only creature to develop a highly qualiadelic, inner landscape. Homo sapiens, after all, has a mind, ideas, language, and morality. But that is not atContinue Reading