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When you hear the phrase ‘First Lady’ and you think ‘Mitochondrial Eve’. #biominded

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“Although we may recognize words ‘without context’, by »definition… we cannot really understand them this way. To understand language, we use »connotation, and this derives not from definition but from relationships… and »connotations...

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“Most of what seems difficult at first glance is staggeringly less difficult than simply going along with our habits, expectations, and ‘the status quo’. So if you’re going to do that much work, allow me to suggest you do ‘the other...

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“The world made visible to the mind in language, statistics, concepts and models is less than .000001% of what’s actually possible… and is going on right now… in and as the minds thus disabled. Consider this your invitation to explore the...

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“I kept searching everywhere for the train station, never realizing that… long ago, I had, myself… become the train. And everyone was inside me… traveling… to all their myriad destinations… on routes mysterious and beautiful.”...

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“We learn to evaluate ourselves, our goals, our desires and behavior according to ‘norms’ or ‘most people’ — but both of these are absolute verbal fictions. Statistics, upon which we base much of our thinking, expectations and...