Will Close your eyes and extend your hand slowly, very slowly, until it meets the resistance of some object. Feel the sensation of that thing blocking, or at least slowing, further extension of your hand. You’ve just summarized in experiment …
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“Cult beliefs look insane from the outside.” -Tom Murphy, Do the Math Tom Murphy, a physicist who writes about the hard mathematical limits to infinite growth on a finite planet, recently published a half-joking (and only half) essay in which …
Awareness Awareness is the universal solvent. We can’t intentionally change what we don’t know exists. To become aware of something, even without meaning to act on it in any other way, affects that thing. It becomes separated from the background, …
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I don’t like writing book reviews. Instead, I prefer to think aloud about a handful of interesting questions that a book raises. This essay was inspired by Tools for Conviviality, by Ivan Illich. Americans don’t so much mind a monopoly …