001991

The organisms and living places… the earth and sun and moon are >doing and being something transcendental… which produces minds as a >side effect of their nature and activity. Modern humans have entirely failed to even begin to imagine this, and we have no...

001992

An interesting and compelling thread. There seems to be an issue here that strikes me as crucial; but it is not precisely the squirrel, or the story. Rather, it is the human propensity to incorrectly presume that the representations we use, in language and...

001993

If speech and language were taken to imply experiment rather than declaration, many issues in thought and relation would be resolved.

001994

Why is »chastity a virtue, and what is its relevance to our existence? Imagine someone who fasts regularly, compared to someone who always eats. The one who is fasting »begins to gain new senses; to merely »smell food, becomes a complex novel array of experiences that...

001995

It is common that we may encounter a romantic situation in which some companion is behaving in ways that would reasonably be understood, from a diagnostic imperative, to be pathological. In such situations, the companion may express a broad variety of behavioral and...