Brainaction

Schizophrenia produces the epitome of madness. It generates wild ideas of contact with the metaphysical and supernatural, compelling hallucinations and utter strangeness, which made it seem to pre-modern societies divine or satanic possession. It deranges meme production (see “The Atoms...

The most serious criticism I have of the President, who declared a war on drugs, is that he gave a gratuitous opening to those, who with equally asinine simplicity, assert it a failure. Restrained by wiser counsel, perhaps reflecting on...

Humans succeed so well at using causes to achieve desired effects that David Hume’s assertion in 1739 still seems preposterous. He held that we cannot know the connection between cause and effect. We overlook the way we gain what knowledge...