Scott Robinson
Don't Talk About Your Genitals!
Among the imperative concerns raised these past few years by the discourse of an untethered Oval Occupant has been the loosening of...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20202 min read
Entropy, Interrupted: Consciousness and Energy
Dissipative adaptation - ‘spreading energy’ - may, in the long run, turn out to be an insight into the nature of matter on a par with...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read
The Misfits
Our old friends Chuck and Roger, who reside on a veldt in South-Central Africa in the Upper Paleolithic, are secure in their occupations...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read
Lest We Become as They
I’ve noticed some changes lately. Changes in some of the people I know, specifically. Some of them have begun acting differently. And the...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read
Moonwatcher Redux
It’s widely agreed that the most interesting character in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey is the homicidal computer HAL 9000, rather than...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20204 min read
The Double Negative Police
There we sat in a vegan cafe, munching on something that hadn’t originated on land but could neither be called seafood. I didn’t ask. My...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20204 min read
The Sexual Regulatory Commission
Imagine, for a moment, an alternate reality. In this alternate reality, monogamy does not exist. No couples. Instead, sex and partnership...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20202 min read
The Cost of Cognitive Clustering
Among humankind’s less admirable innovations, cognitive clustering may be the most insidious and destructive. Cognitive clustering – the...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20204 min read
Oxytocin, Open-Loop
Many tens of thousands of years ago, everybody slept together. I know how that sounds, but I’m speaking literally: in our migratory...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read
The Survival Value of Authenticity
Neuroscientist Sam Harris has recently expressed, in interviews and in his book Lying, that deceit is a toxic behavior no matter the...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20203 min read
Corona Hell
We thought we knew what crazy looked like before. Since the COVID-19 lockdown, we’ve seen crazy go to a whole new place. We’ve seen food...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20204 min read
In God We Trust
For most of the time human beings have existed, we did just fine without religion. It’s a pretty recent invention, as cultural...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20208 min read
After the Fire
An essay by Mackenzie Lynne Brock Citizenship II, 4th Hour Beshear Middle School, 4/22/2076 In times of comfort and prosperity it is...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20202 min read
Followers
We are a world of followers. A few leaders are among us, to be sure, but necessarily they are the exception; we are the norm. We who...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20202 min read
Nincompoop
It’s not because he’s a bully, pushing and shoving his way through every contact, every relationship, every event in which he finds...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20206 min read
The Egg and the Cream in the Pie
Science writer John Horgan, in pursuit of stories for his collection Mind-Body Problems: Science, Subjectivity & Who We Really Are,...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20201 min read
Frozen Robot Daddy
So my daughter Josie says, “Daddy, when you die – which isn’t all that far off – I can’t decide whether to have you frozen or download...
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Scott Robinson
May 28, 20204 min read
Picard’s Federation, dissipative adaptation, and Paleolithic abundance
“Societies entertain such morals as they can afford.” That’s not an exact quote, and for the life of me I can’t remember if it’s Heinlein...
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