100 something essays later… My aim with this blog: to “know myself” and “help people suffer less”. I feel good about the first part — the journey to “know myself” is now quite alive, and will carry on as long as I do. As for “help people suffer less”, I…

“A crisis of wisdom as the defining crisis of our time? This diagnosis, and from a scientist and scholar at that, is unusual. Science, psychology and even the multitude of modern and postmodern therapies and social practices, have not been able to fill the vacuum.” Thomas Steininger “Who wants to…

“There’s a deep continuity between the way biological life self-organizes and the way cognition self-organizes, which means there is a deep…

“It is not our souls that are broken but, as neuroscience teaches us, it is our minds, These minds, the faulty walnuts we interpret reality through, did not evolve in ways that render them easy companions in the harried conditions of modern life. And it’s not just we who are…

[shrug]?

“They say: ‘THAT was MORE REAL! That was REALLY REAL! And because of my desire to be in contact with what’s real, I’m going to change myself, and I’m going to change my world.’ They start to transform their whole lives and their whole self. …

“Society tells us to direct our hopes in two areas- Romantic love and professional success. And it distracts us with news, movies, and consumption. It’s not enough, as we know. Especially at three in the morning.” Alain de Botton “Welcome to McLife. What’s your order?” I’ll have a dream job…

Where do you go for information? … internet? Where do you go for knowledge? … university? science? history? Where do you go for wisdom? John Vervaeke WHY — is modern life so vexing? The W.H.O. reports record levels of anxiety, depression, and suicide worldwide. Why is this, and who is…

ME = actual sensory data, plus all sorts of gobbledygook predicted and attenuated by the brain based on the culmination of your life…