Animals are sort of modeled after trees in that they basically live in the same landscape all their lives. Even though they move, they stick to pretty much the same landmarks and pathways for their entire lifetime. They watch the same landscape grow and change over the seasons and theContinue Reading
The extremes of probability and possibility are to be avoided like the Scylla and Charybdis. The extreme of probability is certainty, fixity, stagnation and routine; the extreme of possibility is infinity, which is the end of existence. In essence, these two extremes are one and the same, states of beingContinue Reading
We don’t really need to know all the neurotransmitters and what they do; the Big Dopamine/Little Dopamine metaphor will serve as shorthand for serotonin, endocannibanoids, and a host of others. Neurotransmitters are like the universal myths: we only need to find the one that touches us personally to get theContinue Reading