Cake Theory: No analogy is perfect, but here we go anyway :) Imagine that we are all bakers and we’re each baking a cake. The cake is an analogy for your life, and just like a cake, your life is not instantly created. It is made from your time, experiences, effort, energy, and the choices you make. In this analogy, it takes time to collect the cake’s ingredients, mix, bake, and decorate. A cake needs a baker to create it, so in this analogy, the baker is you, and the cake is

It could be argued that one of the meanings of life is to experience life. By doing this, we can hopefully enjoy and go with the flow of life. However, we can also be ambitious and achieve meaning and fulfilment through setting and achieving goals. These achievements can be small short-term goals or large lifelong goals. We should realise what these goals are and actively pursue them, or risk never achieving them. We must not forget that effort and energy are required in thes

I thought life would be fair if I gave the right attitude, time, and effort. But as I grew older, I realised that nothing is fair.     I guess, deep down, when we grow up, we all come to realise that life isn’t fair. However, I was sure that with consistency and hard work, that it would balance out, that I would get what I deserve and what I want. But it was slowly revealed to me that this was not the case. Hard work, consistency, and ambition did not yield all that many resu

We’re going to explore the question, What is the brain & mind? This is an interesting question, because if we ask, what is the function of any other organ or body part? We find it a much simpler question to answer. So, today we’re going to look at a specific function of the brain/mind and the experience of consciousness. So, what is the brain, mind, and consciousness really doing? Well, I’d like to suggest that the brain is a reality simulator. Why does it simulate reality? S