Archive for February 13th, 2002

How Humans Got Big Brains

Wednesday, February 13th, 2002

How did humans get so intelligent? Why do we have such a big brain? Well, it didn’t happen overnight. The Earth is believed to have formed four and one-half billion years ago. Life was soon to follow. Today we have found fossils from early living systems that are over 3 billion years old. What advantage emerging humanity had over the animals was not physical. The animals were bigger, stronger, and faster. The human advantage was intelligence. Time-binding is not a new physical form. Time-binding is a new way of “thinking”. And, understanding human intelligence­ and time-binding will require us to understand the evolution of ourselves and of our human brain. (02/13/02)
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Accept the things I cannot change

Wednesday, February 13th, 2002

Written in 1926 by Reinhold Neibuhr, the Serenity prayer is always worth reading and thinking about. … (02/13/02)
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