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A sense for the qualiadelic gives us confidence that there is an order to the world. To paraphrase the neuroscientist and philosopher, Daniel Dennett, a sense for the qualiadelic helps us fill in the rest of the wallpaper, even though our eyes can only see only one small portion ofContinue Reading

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Ritual is widely misunderstood. There are good reasons to be skeptical of it, but we must not be like the cynic: we mustn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. The difference between the skeptic and the cynic is that the skeptic doubts his own intelligence, too, along with everyoneContinue Reading

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Question: when do my party-throwing friends in the mountains sound like the brightest of NASA’s space engineers? When they say, “the only thing we can’t control is the weather.” The weather reflects the most abstract of qualia, for it is filled with non-euclidean and non-newtonian forces, waiting to be tapped.Continue Reading

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Happy Easter, when the April Sun rises in the East and all of nature is reborn. May ecosystems continue to send their blessings to us.

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When an idea attracts us we move toward it. That movement isritual. Imagine the early idea that some tribesmen came up with, that they could influence the weather with a gesture. A silly idea, perhaps, but it seemed to work, so they did it again, and over the generations the ritualContinue Reading