All animals have evolved in landscapes to chase matter, to desire it, and often, to possess it. Landscapes are competitive, full of struggle and desire. But ecosystems consist of many landscapes together, co-existing in harmony. So, on an individual level all living beings must deal with competition. But in those momentsContinue Reading

Socrates: Remember that I did not ask you to give me two or three examples of piety, but to explain the general idea which makes all pious things to be pious. Do you not recollect that there was one idea which made the impious impious, and the pious pious?Euthyphro: IContinue Reading

Perhaps one of my favorite “laws” is the Webber- Fechner effect (which is probably far more nuanced than my example here). If you walk up a seesaw towards the center, the movements of the seesaw start out drastic, but as you get to the center the seesaw moves less andContinue Reading