First Blog

You have a goal; teach an ant, (sugar ant, fire ant, army ant, any one of them) how to read.   Here are some tips: 1.       First, get its attention. 2.       Show it some examples of reading sources. 3.       Read to the ant, pointing out the words as you go along. 4.       Point to specific words, pronouncing them clearly. 5.       Explain the alphabet, and discuss how words are formed.             The net result for all your careful effort is the ant doesn’t learn a thing.   The obvious reason is that it hasn’t the “brain-power” to learn reading.    Moreover, it isn’t interested even with your infinite patience. It can’t distinguish your sounds.   In short it simply can’t comprehend what you are doing.   Its brain is not wired for learning written and spoken language.   The ant’s communication is limited to smell via chemicals called pheromones .   Yet, to the ant, its world is complete and is comprehended to its max. This silly example is to serve but one purpose –

Atheists are curious types.  Let's take the strong view of athiests,  those asserting that no deity exists. (The link also discusses the weak form - more-or-less agnosticism.)   How do these folks come to this conclusion?  There are a couple of reasons: (1) Having no deity anywhere is rather convenient to one's life style.  It gives an excuse or ability to do whatever one wants without regard to primal causes or consequences.  (2) There appears to be a wide body of scientific evidence that the traditional views of creation have no credible place in their thinking and beliefs. Note, we are well beyond any religion, another topic completely, and are moving toward the existence of all that is.  Various views of the universe range widely, though mostly these days the "big-bang" theory is the lingua franca of  views. This means the universe has been created through a terrific explosion of all matter.  It created galaxies and everything else we regard as the material un

Lemmings.   Suppose we have an important subject whose practitioners are all relatively mediocre. Research from these people will correspondingly be mediocre.  However, some of it will catch on - as always happens.  Many will gravitate toward this line of thinking and propagate more research along these lines.  It will become the mainstream mode of thinking.  Then, after a long time, the ideas will not prove valid; they will be proved absolutely incorrect.  What happens is that a new equally invalid idea will replace it, and it will catch on.  The cycle repeats.  The net result is this important subject will never progress, but will leap from one incorrect paradigm to another. There is such a subject in this world.  You might justly think government - my preferred choice, but that is too obvious.