Month: March 2021

Holistic care is a fashionable way of prescribing a solution, but how capable are we (as a society, or as an individual care giver) to provide care for the whole …

I use the phrase “the soup in which we live” a lot as a metaphor for the systems, environments, and ecologies in which we develop and live. I think it’s …

image shameless stolen from https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/towards-a-bayesian-theory-of-willpower I’m a firm believer that willpower does not exist, or at least in the way that most people think of it without reflection. I don’t …

There’s a theory about the evolutionary purposes for tickling. A social purpose, intimate physical contact in a safe playful way is important to our interpersonal development, especially in our younger …

On the strive together podcast Jeffrey Canada and Jennifer Blatz discuss that the reason so many siloed projects fail to help children. Each of the projects by themselves are insufficient …

3/12/2021 Much has been written and explored about John Rawls’ concept of the “veil of ignorance.”  A thought experiment where one is to consider what kind of society they would …

We are a patchwork of evolved, sufficiently adaptive survival functions. The functions exist at the level of molecules, spinal reflexes, midbrain organismic regulation systems, cognitive faculties (the ability to plan …