All animals have evolved in landscapes to chase matter, to desire it, and often, to possess it. Landscapes are competitive, full of struggle and desire. But ecosystems consist of many landscapes together, co-existing in harmony. So, on an individual level all living beings must deal with competition. But in those momentsContinue Reading
Socrates: Remember that I did not ask you to give me two or three examples of piety, but to explain the general idea which makes all pious things to be pious. Do you not recollect that there was one idea which made the impious impious, and the pious pious?Euthyphro: IContinue Reading
Most of us are stuck in our landscapes, addicted to Big Dopamine, and unable to appreciate ecosystems. We are like Mr. Square, the resident of Flatland (from the famous little book by Edwin Abbott). Unable to look above or below his landscape, which was as flat as a piece ofContinue Reading