Consciousness is an emergent property of evolution. Like all things that resulted from evolution, we can gather evidence to come up with theories and explanations. We should avoid (or postpone) the…| Earth...Brains...Technology...Design
My dog was licking my face this morning – as he often does in the morning. Many people refuse to let dogs lick their faces. Understandable. I am one of the apparently few people who allow it.…| Earth...Brains...Technology...Design
(This article is re-published and re-edited from a previous version written on December 2004) People are often amazed by musicians who play by ear, such as pianists who can just pick up melodies an…| Earth...Brains...Technology...Design
Take a random phrase from the left column, a random phrase from the middle column, and a random phrase from the right column. Combine them to construct a question about your belief in God. How ma…| Earth...Brains...Technology...Design
I am reading a non-fiction book. Some of the sentences that the author writes make no sense to me. I have noticed several times that the author uses the words “but”, “however̶…| Earth...Brains...Technology...Design
(this blog post was originally published in . It has been moved to this blog – with slight changes.) Remember Nietzsche’s famous announcement, “God is dead“? In the domain of mathematics, Ni…| Earth...Brains...Technology...Design
(image from Let’s talk about body language. A key property of body language is that it is almost always unconscious to both giver and receiver. Image from: This is not a problem in itself &#…| Earth...Brains...Technology...Design
As a design thinker of the Don Norman ilk, I place ample blame for human error on negligent or arrogant design from trend-setters who seem to be more intent on presenting slick, featureless interfa…| Earth...Brains...Technology...Design
Negentropy is the opposite of entropy. It refers to an increase in order, complexity, and usefulness, while entropy refers to the decay of order or the tendency for a system to become random and us…| Earth...Brains...Technology...Design
Stanislaw Dehaene’s book, Consciousness and the Brain, identifies various kinds of consciousness. It helps to separate the various uses of the words “conscious” and “conscio…| Earth...Brains...Technology...Design
