Dan Thompson
Why Do We Want to Understand Consciousness in the First Place?
The Key to Creativity is Thinking for Yourself Is your brain yours or someone else’s? There are two reasons for the two different kinds...
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Dan Thompson
- Jul 15, 2022
- 3 min
Why Quantum Mechanics isn’t Weird (closer to a straight answer, but not quite)
In clarification to the last post, I am writing an addendum. The reason I said Quantum Mechanics isn’t weird is because it is the basis...
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Dan Thompson
- Jul 14, 2022
- 9 min
Quantum Mechanics isn’t ‘Spooky’ and Neither are UFOs
To say that the universe is an interesting place is an understatement and almost not worth saying, but it must be said if only as a...
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Dan Thompson
- Jun 23, 2022
- 4 min
Surveillance Capitalism: The Internet is the Tip of the Iceberg
If the term surveillance capitalism is as new to you as it was to me, it may need a little clarification. Shosha Zuboff, author of The...
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Dan Thompson
- Jan 9, 2022
- 7 min
Whose Nature?
Beauty is of the Earth, Art is of Nature Whose Nature? Not mine. There are two approaches to nature writing, which double as the two...
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Dan Thompson
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
The Measurement ‘Problem’ as a Unit of Measurement, not a Problem, part 2
The following is a continuation of a previous post entitled, Consciousness and the Measurement Problem pt.1, and can be found via a link...
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Dan Thompson
- Nov 13, 2021
- 3 min
The So-Called Human Condition is Chosen not Innate, (but is it chosen for you?)
If you are on Youtube and click the right links you will eventually come across this video as a pop-up: The Interview That “Solves The...
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Dan Thompson
- Nov 13, 2021
- 2 min
Purpose in Place, We Are Not (a product of) Our Environment
When addressing Purpose in Place, a lot of organizations speak to people who have either already found their place or are already living,...
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Dan Thompson
- Sep 19, 2021
- 3 min
Getting the Most out of our Experiences
The Time of the Place There is no such thing as a waste of time. Even those who have wasted most of it have learned the benefit of...
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Dan Thompson
- Aug 24, 2021
- 2 min
Blackfoot indigenous vs Large-scale Modern societies
A Comparison of Meaning and Quality of Life in Indigenous vs Contemporary Western societies https://gatherfor.medium.com/maslow-got-it-wr...
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Dan Thompson
- Aug 18, 2021
- 12 min
Both/ And: Dealing with Duality
Dualities are ubiquitous in nature, but that doesn’t mean that they are what they seem, otherwise physicists wouldn’t be looking for a...
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Dan Thompson
- Aug 15, 2021
- 3 min
Purpose in Place: Belonging where you live and living where you belong
In a time of reduced or curtailed travel, people have started to find renewed interest in the places they live, or that they have...
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Dan Thompson
- Jun 30, 2021
- 4 min
A Balmy Approach to Global Walming (sic)
Putting a Positive Slant on a Critical and Controversial Issue (Climate Change) I recently failed to publish an essay entitled ‘A Balmy...
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Dan Thompson
- Jun 14, 2021
- 3 min
Lying By Omission
I recently had a HUGE epiphanic realization, to wit… That the phenomenal world, everything behind it, and everything in front of it–that...
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Dan Thompson
- Jun 7, 2021
- 1 min
To the Moon and Back… 50 years later?
What is our relationship to Place when we leave the security of the stable, solid ground in order to journey to the edge of the Earth’s...
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Dan Thompson
- Jun 7, 2021
- 2 min
Are Aliens Even Intelligent?
Presuming that we have been ‘contacted’ by them, and presuming that They are ‘among us’, I would venture to ask… are they but devolved...
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Dan Thompson
- Jun 1, 2021
- 3 min
The Limits of Knowledge and the Problem with Materialism
A Theory of Everything is Not Material What we take for verity and certainty are the limits of knowledge, the limits of what we can know...
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Dan Thompson
- May 25, 2021
- 1 min
Cosmogenesis (X-chromosomes)
Time was when God judged Kings Sages Who judges now? -Friedrich Holderlin Here’s my opinion if it means anything at all where...
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Dan Thompson
- May 23, 2021
- 2 min
So You Think You’ve Got a Theory for Everything (Yes I Realize It’s Theory of Everything
Theories right now are bullish, we are in the midst of an ideas and information boom. But before we oversaturate the market and cause a...
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Dan Thompson
- May 23, 2021
- 1 min
Work in Relationship to AI
What is the wisdom in referring to getting paid for work as ‘reward’ instead of ‘compensation’ ‘salary’ ‘wage’ or even ‘bacon’? I say it...
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