The Thump Keg

Current research in brain science indicates that life change rarely occurs as a result of logical thinking. Change occurs when information is processed in the part of the brain not accessible to conscious thought... popularly referred to as the right brain. Conscious, logical thought is sometimes referred to as left-brain function. It is sequential and slower than the processing speed of the right brain. These two types of mental processing complement each other. Each has its own advantages. I will use the popular terms of right brain and left brain to describe these mental processes, although the actual neurology is more complex than functions strictly located on the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Face recognition software in a computer must process a huge amount of data. But how does our brain recognize a face? We do not consciously analyze the light and dark areas of the image, but somehow we quickly recognize the image of a human being. We even may discern someth...

Thoughts on Uniformitarianism Uniformitarianism , also known as the Doctrine of Uniformity, is the assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere.    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformitarianism Uniformitarianism , in geology, the doctrine suggesting that Earth's geologic processes acted in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity in the past as they do in the present and that such uniformity is sufficient to account for all geologic change.    https://www.britannica.com/science/uniformitarianism a bit of history Thanks to the pioneering work of researchers such as  William Smith , geologists in the early 1800s were able to swiftly organize rock formations into a single colossal record of Earth's history. Many geologists saw in this record a stormy epic, one in which our planet had been convulsed repeatedly by abrupt cha...