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All in mindscape
Creativity is humanity's most precious least predictable attribute. It's incorrectly equated with intuitive but the truth may be more unsettling. It may be an emergent property just like consciousness but emergent from what? Wexler thinks he has a possible answer.
Society is polarised but this is nothing new. What's new is the way the widespread availability of facts and truths haven't brought more reasonable rational people closer together. Pete thinks about reasons why.
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.
Mindfulness meditation may seem like a great idea - taking control of your conscious mind, learning to focus and concentrate and not be swept away by negative or extreme emotions. Merton doesn’t agree and instead sees it as something far less benign…
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.
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.
This early contribution is an ‘in the middle’ write-up of personal experience helping a near relative going through cold turkey detoxification and - continuing the close support - the months of “recovery” from that deepest most extreme of addictions: fentanyl and heroin - opiod and opiate.
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.
