Reality Blind - Vol. 1

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 1

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SECTION 1 - HOW TO THINK ABOUT REALITY............................................ 6

What If What We Know Just Ain’t So?? .............................................................. 7

The Parts and theWhole of the Elephant........................................................... 9

An Uncommon, But Important, Timeline..........................................................12

The Rules of Reality ............................................................................................14

Emergence ..........................................................................................................16

Contingent Probability .......................................................................................18

On the Issue of Boundaries ................................................................................20

So, How Do We Engage with Reality?...............................................................22

SECTION 2 - DEEP TIME ....................................................................... 24

We Are Stardust..................................................................................................25

Deep Time ...........................................................................................................27

Our Family Tree ..................................................................................................29

Mass and Minor Extinctions ..............................................................................30

Our Earth Clock...................................................................................................33

SECTION 3 - HUMAN BEHAVIOR ........................................................... 36

The Human Problem, and the Human Brain.....................................................37

Evolution by (natural) Selection ........................................................................39

The Pinnacle of Creation (Not) ..........................................................................41

Human Evolution................................................................................................43

The Agenda of the Gene.....................................................................................45