Category: Thinking Meat Project

I wrote recently about the adaptation of various Eastern spiritual practices by Westerners, and how in the process these practices became more or less belief-fr...

I’m reading Philip Goldberg’s American Veda, and I’m noticing some interesting things about the ways that Westerners think about the Eastern s...

This article from Science News Daily uses the lovely phrase “sleep fragility” to describe the unlovely phenomenon of sleep that is vulnerable to dis...

Although I do not believe in any of the gods proposed by the world’s religions, I do have feelings of wonder, awe, connectedness, and transcendence that m...

I’m interested in some of the mental constructs that thinking meat has created, like science or art or religion. I’m particularly interested in area...

Steven Pinker, in a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, proposes an explanation of how human intelligence evolved. He begins by...

You may remember hearing about work that looked at different aspects of morality and found that people who are politically liberal emphasize certain of these as...

There are those who say that the development of agriculture was a bad idea. It’s about 12,000 years too late to do anything about it, and as I sit here in...