Behavior passivity refers to the nature of behavior, all behavior, including all human behavior, of any type or level of complexity. Like all real events in nature, on this planet, in this universe, behavior is natural, that is, it comprises natural events. It is an inevitable reaction.
Another inadequately answered ancient question concerns reality. The question takes various forms. What is reality? Is reality real? Are our surroundings really what they seem? Are humans really what they seem? How does reality happen?
What is death and how can the terminally ill receive better, more scientifically informed care that helps them retain their dignity during the dying process? Understanding death and enhancing dignified dying provide good starting points.
The question concerns life’s meaning. What is the meaning of life? This column also attempts answers which, though different, also may not seem satisfactory, at least to some people.
Avoiding magical accounts leads life and living to personhood as the full potential and actual repertoire of behavior of a human organism. This repertoire of behavior, which genetics and conditioning have made a body, a neural physiology, capable of mediating, is the person.
What is life? What is a “form of life?” The determination of life status, and our recognition of it, stem from natural, not magical, functions.
Consider the nature of life, and the nature of living. Previous columns have extended current, although initial, scientifically consistent answers for some of humanity’s ancient questions, most recently into the area of consciousness.
That abstract status of morals, as verbal stimuli, somewhat divorces them from the contingencies that generate them. This can lead to problems just as rules that no longer reflect the contingencies that they describe—because the contingencies have changed—can lead to problems.
