Essays included in "Synthesis" (2009)

• The Curse of Gravity

• The Spiderweb

• The Mind

• Civilization

• What Is the Dao of an Ant

• Civilizations of Sound

• The Age of Abstraction

• The Abolition of Time

• The Society of Pets

• Creativity in Art and Science

• The Infinite

• The Separation of Art and Science

• The Cognitive Closure

• Religion, Science, Drugs

• Greed

• The Barbarians

• Change and its Opposite

• Regress

• The Irrelevance of Time

• Endosymbiosis

• The Meaning of Art

• Identity

• Alcohol and Meat

• Creativity is the opposite of routine

• Creativity is not structure

• The Origin of Superstition

• Human societies Are Systems at the Edge of Chaos

• The Digital Individual

• Toward a Linear World

• Meditation

• The Age of Loneliness

• The Relativity of Truth

• Democratizing Culture

• Evil

• The Meaning of Life

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• Aphorisms

• The Quest for Beauty

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• The End of Exploration

• Alive and Dead

• Life is a soliloquy

• Happiness

• Getting Drunk