In nature, death can often be a profoundly beautiful process. Take the butterfly, for instance. The butterfly represents the final stage of its growth and transformation—a stage that is, in essence, a form of dying. Yet, it is in this very stage that its beauty is most striking. From ourContinue Reading

Synchronicity is the seemingly random, unexplainable coincidences which occur, such as when I happen to look at the clock and see it’s 420 all the time (for the record, I never did well smoking pot). Or maybe you want to find an agent for your book and you meet one atContinue Reading

First of all, ideas are qualia. Ideas, just like colors or smells, are not really part of the things that have them, though they are very much a part of us. A rose wouldn’t be red if we (or some other organism) had not evolved the ability to sense rosesContinue Reading