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All in mindscape
The Green Knight is our oldest contributing editor and we look to him for wisdom. Here he writes a short piece about the way passions fade with age and wonders whether it’s old age or the contemporary age that’s responsible for the life more ordinary.
Trying to offer a different paradigm for how the brain creates consciousness and how this engenders the self “I”, we consider the implications of identity being constructed on the fly - like a frame rate - and how this perspective might hold the key to our place in the universe.
The data seems to suggest most human beings are “on the spectrum” - which was unexpected - but likewise most are inside the bell curve of unimpaired neurological function. Does this mean most of us class as autistic? Is a touch of autism the new normal?
The green knight, as he often does, throws his hat in the ring with a no nonsense demystification of some pros and cons for the recent trend in separating hallucinogens and encouraging ‘responsible’ psychedelic experience (D.M.T. or psilocybin “magic” mushrooms).
As an autodidact, Maggie Hetherington is no fan of the entitled privilege of academic gravy trains. Here she makes a case for intelligence being not a failure in school but failed by traditional schooling.
Maggie used to teach English so her interest in linguistics makes her an ideal choice for an article on the way language is being colonised by political ideologies Left and Right; and how this matters more than anything currently classed as cultural appropriation.
Maggie gives us a few aphorisms for this week’s Outside Edge article. The subject is how the brain parses reality and truth into memories and stories; and these latter matter more than fact over time.
This early contribution to the Outside Edge is an ‘in the middle’ write-up of personal experience going through cold turkey detoxification and the months of “recovery” from the deepest most extreme of addictions.
The blue smurf spends a minute thinking about the collective unconscious and how mood dictates opinion, perspective creates belief and how we’re all sycamore spinners on the wind.
The Schlumpfe comes out of his lab to talk about the convenient delusion that we human beings possess objective Free Will, and how Free Will or no Free Will, the concept and the question amount to a fatal handicap.
The Green Knight likes to think. Bertilak likes to take mind altering substances. The Green Knight gives some serious thought to the concept of cognitive dissonance and how it seems to infected everyone without sending anyone insane, somehow resisting antidotes like fact and truth.
Our resident psychonaut and Green Knight writes about free will and consciousness and how he’s not convinced by arguments in favour of free will nor entirely won over by the logic of arguments against it.
