Work, the Eight-Hour Pause
One of the challenges which a job presents is that, for eight hours or so, our Big Dopamine cravings go unsatisfied. Yet, the eight hour pause from Big Dopamine satiation is a good thing. It potentiates Little Dopamine. This is the wealth to be found in letting things go, as Thoreau suggested.Continue Reading
Ecosystems are not competitive, they are cooperative!
I am so tired of otherwise brilliant intellectuals saying that ecosystems are competitive. Ecosystems are not competitive, they are cooperative! It is landscapes that are competitive, and it is ecosystems that hold diverse landscapes in balance.
Mental Events As Illusions
As a rainbow is highly qualiadelic — it has no real, material existence — so, too, are our thoughts and emotions illusory. Ideally, we can look right into our anger and it will dissipate into nothing. The same is true with other emotions, as well as most of our thoughts.Continue Reading
Addicts, Faith, and Ecosystems
An addict is always up or down at one end or the other of the see-saw. He is never in balance for long. There is no “something greater” in his thoughts beyond satisfying the craving; and there is no center because he is dependent upon matters outside of his control.Continue Reading
Balance
When needs are being met, then Interest and Participation levels are in balance; and when needs are not being met, then Interest and Participation levels are not in balance. But there is something more to balanced Interest and Participation levels. They free us up to notice new qualia. Like standingContinue Reading