God, the human being, the collective, biology, death, and the web of meaning
We never meet God raw. What reaches us has already passed through a nervous system, a language, a family, a church or a refusal of church, a fear of dying, and a need to know what the day is for. That does not prove God is only a need. Love and the world…
The particular event without a new act in God
The earlier essay left one mechanism unfinished: the dated particular event. This follow-up states it without giving the first cause a before and after. Intervention and non-intervention are not two states of God. They are two kinds of created series…
The distributed Self and it’s criticism
A strong model of the self must do two things at once: synthesize what is fragmented and resist the temptation to explain more than it has earned. The distributed mind is a powerful map, but it becomes more credible when it admits its omissions, its…