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    Watching how animals learn

    Published on December 28, 2008

    My essay this year in Cosmos & History is importantly about noticing that animals are not primarily involved in conflict, as the Darwinian theory and the equations of ecology are described to mean. When watching animals behave, fish in a stream or mice in the shadows, or even ants, they’re primarily involved in exploring. That […]


    The mystery of misunderstanding the obvious

    Published on September 25, 2008

    for http://www.oneclimate.net 

    I’ve been studying the puzzles of natural systems, how they all have their own individually divergent behaviors, and individual reactions to their environments.   Then I noticed that that aspect of nature entirely conflicts with the idea of  ‘determinism’, that everything (except human free will) is controlled by its surroundings. 
    Last year I read a paper […]


    A very short novel -

    Published on September 21, 2008

    A Small Mistake 
    I think maybe we should believe our eyes rather than make excuses for some old rules that aren’t working.
    Maybe what happened, in the beginning, was that God sent the scribe a text message, saying, “…and I give you all this and a wonderful mind with which you can make models to bee the […]