We humans are wired to be lazy. Evolutionarily, we conserve energy. Calories were expensive. Our nervous systems evolved to reward efficiency. We prefer shortcuts. We automate habits. We stick to routines. We resist change. We jump to conclusions. We use tools. We assume patterns. We adopt group opinions. We follow fashion. We avoid difficult conversations.Continue reading “Oblivion”
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No Harm, No Foul?
I’ve come to a place where I don’t feel the need to fight every belief anymore. As long as a belief isn’t harming someone, physically, psychologically, or financially, I’m okay letting it be. And that’s a big shift for me, because I used to think that bad ideas had to be confronted everywhere, all theContinue reading “No Harm, No Foul?”
Goldilocks
Originally recorded 2019-09-12 1:13 PM Ever since I was a child, teenager maybe, I was aware of this thought that ‘life’ was simply a product of the current physical, chemical, biological state of our universe/environment. The limited view of scientists who keep searching for life or postulate the probability of life based on the smallContinue reading “Goldilocks”
