The Alpha Factor and Religion
The alpha factor is a symbolic principle of organization often attached to religious mapping, but it is one with a firm foundation in evolutionary reality and the biological continuity found among related species.
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Seeking Hope in the Far Future
In “The Far Future Universe,” George Ellis poses an overarching question: “Will human life and all intelligence inevitably come to an end as the universe evolves, or is there some way in which they could survive until the end of time?”
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The Feast of the Elements
Might it be our time in history to begin honoring the birth of the elements?
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God in Time or the Lifetime of Religion
Astrophysicist J. Richard Gott has predicted the longevity of everything from the Berlin Wall to Broadway musicals. I asked Gott to apply his mathematical formula to religion—both the great world religions, and some newer offshoots.
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Multiplying NonZero: Review of Robert Wright’s “Nonzero”
In day-to-day life, there all kinds of non-zero-sum games that people play. Robert Wright sees this as “the secret of life.”
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Glorious Contingency
Arguing for a “balanced theory of contingent-necessity in evolution.”
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Review of Robert Wright’s “Nonzero”
Although it is a well-written book and Robert Wright is a clever journalist with a bent for spinning evolutionary just-so stories, he forgot to test his hypothesis. As a consequence he has paid the price by being wrong.
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
Does the history of our species show any evidence of higher purpose?
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Possibility Space in Evolution
What possibility spaces are needed to get from beginnings to where we have now arrived, in Earth history?
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Genes and the Adapted Mind
The system of inheritance of ideas is independent of the system of inheritance of genes. All this is pointing steadily to a difference in being human, to a complex mind indeed adapted for culture, that is, to a distinctive human genius.