When scientists arrive at “new” truths, they build on what exists, and they bring useful things into the world that did not exist before. Such useful things, for all the good they do, unfortunately, don’t really do much to alleviate unhappiness (not to mention the misfortunes which all our newContinue Reading

When we are in balance, standing above the seesaw, looking outward, noticing new qualia, we become the qualiadelic select.

I think Nietzsche nailed it — but I will get to that in a moment. In the nineteen-fifties a Beat Generation began to disobey the status quo in America. We know the rest of the story: the angry young men (and women) grew wise and invited their little brothers andContinue Reading