All of life communicates via the landmarks and pathways they have evolved to perceive. Presumably, most animal eyes see a tree, most prokaryotes discern temperature or light or some chemical flavor, etc. etc., but landmarks and pathways may have different meanings or interpretations depending on the species or the individual.Continue Reading

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