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Science

We Are Aimless!?

With the rise of industrialism, there was a vested interest in it not for the greater good of mankind, but… Read More

Early Morale Officers

There is a reason primitive tribes saw the emergence of the shaman. We originally recognized and even shared a vision… Read More

A World with the Shaman

Now a world that has room for the "shaman" or whatever that would be called in the modern era... The… Read More

Source of Greatest Strength

Another example of the truths I am trying to get at... Even the most die hard materialists tend to acknowledge… Read More

Principles of our Ancestors

I have been reading rants on Facebook as if science had innate moral virtue and how horribly irresponsible it is… Read More

Tribal Understanding: Listening to the Earth

Example, a big element of tribal understanding (though one of those vaguely mystical things orthodox scientists are so keen to… Read More

Tribal Understanding: Capacity for Language

Another example, the old legends of humans talking with animals was seen as absolutely nonsense. More and more, brain size… Read More

Memetic Poison

So language, and specifically mathematics... This is the long path coming back around to today's intended subject of Benford's Law.… Read More

Expressive Channel

Is there a paradoxical circumstance here? Culture which enables us to "adapt" actually reduces our adaptive capacities? Exactly. The corrective… Read More

Numerological Order

What is Benford's Law? I thought maybe I should get down to that. It's a pattern that emerges in various… Read More