Whose Reality is This?

The running theme in this blog, perhaps in my entire life, has been on reality, or what we think may be reality. What is reality?  Is that a...

Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven may be the most genetically studied musicians of all time. Why is that? Because their music is famou...

In our daily conversation we use many words that we don’t give a millisecond of thought to where they arose from. And, sometimes, what they ...

While reading an abstract on a paper* introducing a theory on the complexity of evolutionary search effectiveness of natural selection as a...

  With a long interest in how we as humans perceive our environment, I found this quote to be quite adequate: "....the imposition of th...

Everyone has demons. The worst demon of all is denying acknowledgment of your demons. Conquering and ridding your demons is not the answer; ...

This should not be surprising.* AI models are a mirror to human behavior. So shit that goes in results in exporting shit.  AI models are tr...

What is 'reality'? Ask 10 people that question and you'll likely hear 10 different answers, including "I don't know....

Two common words used amongst autistics (and in the autism literature) are 'masking' and 'camouflaging'.  As a late-diagnose...

The dangers of air pollution seem obvious and of concern to some, but apparently only a minority. How much of the apathy is attributed to ...

What convinces me that our species is 'doomed' (I wish I could avoid using that term, but can no longer deny the applicability) is t...

I read an announcement this morning and associated media release about a NYS senator supporting introduced legislation to help recruit more ...

We get some rules to follow That and this, these and those No one knows …..” (‘No One Knows’. Song by Queen of the Stone Ages; album Songs...

I read the term "helicopter parenting" this morning and all I could picture was a helicopter and kids without connecting the maze ...

Pangea and the diversity of life.   Most everyone knows what Pangea was: the largest supercontinent in Earth's history. All land masses ...

"Pathosystem"  I like that term. It encompasses a systems perspective -both pathogen and host- rather than focusing on just a sing...

I love this quote. Wish I had it on a rubber stamp.  "Being unable to accurately measure the thing on which a theory is based is a fair...

One commonly known trait of autism is fear of change. Reaction to change can be extreme, e.g. a 'meltdown', or mild, such as slight ...