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- On Awareness
Typically, I blather on here about subjects on which I have fairly strong opinions. Really. I can hear your shock. But I’ve been thinking lately about awareness, my thoughts rattling around after reading about the brave new world of Facebook and Twitter et al. (I’m clearly not the only one sent a-twitter about it, which is […]
- Thinking Magical Thinking
Growing up in a household dominated by an engineer father and a mother who topped her class in computer programming in 1969 was an exercise in the myth of American Rationalism. Everything that we did, I was made to understand, we did because it made the most sense. In a neat little bit of logical […]
- What’s in your cognition box?
When Duncan Idaho unearths the memories of all his past incarnations, including those who left no genetic trace, we know that something truly remarkable is going on. Up to then, we’d met characters who could tap into their genetic history, bringing into consciousness the lives and experiences of their entire ancestry. But Duncan was a […]
- Postcard from Maine
I write this from Mount Desert Island, Maine, where I am visiting my cousin’s familial home near Somes Sound. We just returned from a short boat hop across the mouth of the Sound, the islands illuminated with a just-past-full moon in a nearly cloudless night.
- On mating…
Walking to work this morning, I was pondering an alternative to the Aquatic Ape Theory, proposed by Alister Hardy sometime in the 60’s, at least as far as why we are not dependent on estrus for mating. (I first encountered this notion in Isle of Woman, the first in Piers Anthony’s relatively serious series on […]
