Interestingly, another recent study found that when Americans were given the chance to construct their version of the optimal wealth gradient for America, both Republicans and Democrats came up with a chart that looked like Sweden’s. There’s no need to insult the meat in the land of lutefisk.

Novelty, what is time?

Novelty, complexity and advanced ( Read more... )

How could nature not be conscious if our own consciousness is produced by nature?

In other words, to quote Alan Watts, "You did not come INTO this world, you came OUT of it!." Any intelligence we have existed first in the surroundings, of which we are composed. We are, essentially, a whirlwind of our environment; a spiralling feverish mess of milk ( Read more... )