There is a passage in Plato, when Crito is trying to convince Socrates to flee Athens, when suddenly the Laws of State become personified and argue why Socrates ought to stay and suffer his sentence of death. The Laws of State argue simply and truly that were he to flee,Continue Reading

Scientists have revealed that quarks and bosons and subatomic stuff are matter, popping in and out of existence. Sometimes they endure: as evidenced by some pattern that helps them exist for a bit. That pattern is qualia. Matter is manifested in patterns, patterns around which the matter forms; the patternsContinue Reading

Although brains and nervous systems may be genetically hardwired to perceive particular types of patterns, such as edges, light versus dark, hot versus cold, and even time, most patterns in the human landscape are learned from experience. Actually, since there is no memory storehouse in the brain, we actually recreateContinue Reading