When a tiny dust or pollen particle encounters water vapor high in Earth’s atmosphere, the water vapor coats and freezes it into a tiny crystal of ice. This tiny crystal is the “seed” from which a snowflake will grow. New qualia in the mind is like this seed. At someContinue Reading
As we are evolved from other animals, I think there is an innate need to notice little objects and to collect them – for food, sustenance, medicine, even status. But also, maybe like crows, we just like to hoard shiny little (useless?) baubles. The human ability to collect facts andContinue Reading
I had a thought as I was walking up the coastal shore here in southern Oregon. I saw a jellyfish in the sand, very beautiful, just a small guy like the size of a sand dollar, tanslucent, with a beautiful pattern within. And it occurred to me that, you know,Continue Reading