I happened to read another stunning article in Aeon on the same day I re-read this tidbit from Lewis Thomas: Item. I have been trying to think of the earth as a kind of organism, but it is no go. I cannot think of it this way. It is tooContinue Reading

Qualia is not bound by the laws of physics for the simple reason that the laws of physics ARE qualia.

I like to read because the pauses between paragraphs in a book or between the verses of a poem (or a song) are mindful (and not mindless) pauses – they improve us; we reflect, we smile. In such pauses a thought often appears in us already formed, but almost unnoticed,Continue Reading